[Gloucs] Change from KDE to Gnome.

[GEOFF BAGLEY]

I was not referring to start-up,  but to running speed.
I also use a plain single colour Desktop background. 
I have no use for "themes" or wall-paper, I just require legibility.

With KDE I often used a relatively clear Desktop as a highly visible "parking place".  Not sure if that is OK for Gnome yet.

I am not sure about configuration,  but Gnome seems to have plenty of useful applications.  Texmaker for example.  

Abiword can update ancient WordPerfect 5.1 files too !  
(A lot of my archives are on WP5.1 floppies!)

Thanks for your comments.  It is interesting that I am not alone.

Geoff
 

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Anthony Edward Cooper <aecooper at coosoft.plus.com> wrote:

From: Anthony Edward Cooper <aecooper at coosoft.plus.com>
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Change from KDE to Gnome.
To: "Gloucestershire LUG" <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Thursday, 1 July, 2010, 8:29

I also am using Debian Lenny and have made the switch from KDE to Gnome 
for the same reason. However I found Gnome slower than KDE 3 to start 
up... At first.

Biggest improvement in speed was selecting a background other than the 
Debian one that needs to be scaled down etc.... Then have a look at what 
starts in the login session by using the session manager.

Its funny that still after all this time Gnome is still quite inferior 
to KDE 3.5 (lack of desktop apps, ease of configuration and options for 
configuration). However it now does what I need a desktop to do and it 
does look *so* much nicer. KDE 3 looks old fashioned unless you have 
something like RH's BlueCurve theme.

GEOFF BAGLEY wrote:
> I have just made the change from KDE3.5  to Gnome (in order to avoid KDE4)  and notice an appreciable increase in speed.   Is this to be expected ?
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> The machine is an old AMD Athlon running at 1400 MHz with 1GB RAM  with Debian "Lenny".  I am now ready for "Squeeze" when it is released.
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