[Klug-general] gnome = kde?

[J D Freeman]

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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:52:17PM +0100, Shish wrote:
> What sort of differences are you looking for? Apart from the look,
> there's not much else a user sees; and a large part of the look is
> customisable in each anyway....
> 
> Internally, they use different widget toolkits, based on different
> languages; they each have their own set of libraries, there isn't
> really anything in common between them (they're both built on top of
> the same things, but I don't count third party foundations as part of
> either project~)

Aaaah, which level of abstraction to view them at. 

> Try both, see which one you like best, use that one.

To fully evaluate, try all three options:

0) Gnome
1) KDE
2) Neither

> > no "kde/gnome is crap use fvwm" messages etc..
> 
> Why not? Is being well informed about a variety of options a bad thing
> o_O?

It risks degenerating into a holy war, after all we all know fvm sucks,
vi is the only way forward, and anyone with sense uses evilwm ( Tongue
firmly in cheek)

> Personally I run enlightenment dr16, mostly as a way to have many
> xterms visible at once :P

What else is a window mangler for :p

evilwm plus screen, making peoples heads hurt since 2004.

J
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