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

[Scott Hodgson]

Thanks everyone for the input, it is slightly more complex than i 
imagined, as i thought X was the window thing and kde etc were just how 
you viewed it. oh how mistaken i was!!!  one of the reasons i asked is 
the laptop i have is a 256mb p4 1.?ghz and the install process was an 
pain with swapping between alternate install and live cd install 
(Ubuntu) as it was slow or didn't work.  I also use Macs at work and the 
xfce look (from website screenshots) is quite nice so just wondered why 
it looked the same in every distro of 'buntu.  I obviously got the wrong 
end of the stick, but is it quite easy to change how i view a desktop? 
i.e can i change xubuntu to have the typical xfce look.

Will hopefully see you next week Tom - though I maybe slightly late; 
dentists after work and they told me they have to replace all my teeth 
with usb memory sticks, i will ask for the sandisk titanium 4gb ones as 
i am tring for the Goldie look.

Any news on the talk at next weeks meeting.

Scotty


Tom Hall wrote:
> 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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