[Wylug-discuss] Re: what is the difference?

[Tom Hall]

Key difference for me is the GUI toolkit used, QT in KDE and GTK in
Gnome and XFCE.
You can run all applications in any of them, but it is heavier on
memory (as it needs to load both the librarys) and the look and feel
is inconsistent.
Just pick whatever you prefer (the fact that Ubuntu changes the layout
and theme of all 3 desktops has advantages, but I dont like it.
Enlightenment may be worth considering too, looks cool and they use it
on the PS3)

See you next week I hope,
Tom


> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:19:09 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] what is the difference?
> Hi Scott,
>
> this goes into more detail than I could and seems fair:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments
>
> hope it's useful,
>
> John.
>
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:41 +0100, Scott Hodgson wrote:
> > I am a little perplexed as to the difference between the 3 main desktop
> > interface's
> >
> > What is the difference between KDE GNOME and XFCE, I thought it was the
> > display - as in xfce was like a mac, kde all at bottom of screen and
> > gnome at the top - but having looked at ubuntu, kubuntu and xubuntu they
> > all have the same layout.  could someone put me straight.  all the
> > websites I have seen is that it is the look and feel of it, but also
> > they say xfce is more performance based but they all look alike on the
> > 'buntu group.
> >
> > scotty
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