Why is gnome better? RE: [Sussex] Promoting SLUG

[John D.]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:30, Gareth Ablett wrote:
<snip
> That plan looks good I defiantly prefer Gnome and feel that new people
> would too,
> </snip>

>From a "non-techie" point of view, it's sometimes slightly intimidating
too experience just how much SERIOUS IT knowledge there is amongst the
SLUG. So please excuse the question if it seems a little naive.

Gareth's apparent preference for gnome is something that I've read in so
many places (gentoo forum's, linuxquestions, etc etc).

So it's fair to admit, that as most of my linux experience's that have
been successful, have come mainly via mandrake, and given their default
WM of KDE, my own preference/bias toward's it.

Yes, I've had a look at/round gnome, but found that it hasn't alway's
been as "straight forward" (or perhap's IMO intuitive).

So being more of a user, I often try to see, what those who seem vastly
more knowledgable than myself mean, about a particular subject.

Maybe one of you more experienced type's could explain why "those in the
know" seem to prefer gnome over kde? Is it a licencing thing and that
kde's Qt based ability over the gtk/gnome thing? Or is there more too
it?

I mean, I think I understand the "grub Vs lilo" thing, though having
tried both, I keep finding myself being dragged back to lilo. Also, as I
enjoy meddling with the "eye candy" side of thing's, I've alway's found
more "decorative" type stuff available for KDE, though when I've looked
at others examples, they often seem to use gnome, but HOW?, it seems a
bit mysterious at the moment.

regards

John D.