[Gllug] What is the Gnome & KDE difference??

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 01:29 +0600, Emon wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I running Slackware10.2 with KDE desktop. Since Slacwkare10.2 Gnome has
> been dropped from the vanilla packages. I didn't mind because I never
> used Gnome. But you can still get unofficial Gnome pkg from FREEROCK,
> DROPLINE & others like them. Having shifted to Linux from Windoz, I
> found KDE easier to use. But my question is why are some people
> (especially the old guards :) I think ) still seem to be obsessed with
> Gnome?? Is there any reason in particular, or is it just nostalgia?

Gnome is in fact a younger project than KDE. Some people prefer it, some
prefer KDE. Some (like me) prefer to run neither and just have a decent
Window Manager. Linux isn't like Windows - direction isn't set from
above, and free software typically follows an evolutionary path with
several alternatives for many tasks. As long as you can use the
environment you prefer, it shouldn't really matter.

> Also there are some applications which are very very dependent on Gnome,
> like Evolution, Gnomemeeting to name a few. Why does applications have
> to be so Gnome dependent, can't they be a bit more independent??

Gnome applications are not really much worse than KDE apps in this
regard - you can run either in the other environment. Gnome apps use GTK
as the toolkit library, KDE ones use QT. I run Evolution quite happily
without running the rest of Gnome. I do object to the Gnome
configuration database and daemon - gconf is far too much like a
reimplementation of the Windows registry for my liking. Thankfully the
Gnome people are kept well away from the kernel :-).

Mike

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