[Wylug-help] What is the Gnome & KDE difference??

[Shaun Laughey]

Hi Emon,

I for one am an old guard Unix user who now uses gnome purely because it
is cleaner and is Free Software. It works on all of my hardware - Sun,
AMD and Intel and on my operating systems of choice Linux and Solaris. 

Gnome is Free. All of it. On linux, unix or even obsolete OS's like
amiga OS and windows 2000.

KDE is not. Well the QT libraries anyway.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)

Then KDE does have really good bluetooth support in Konqueror. And I
much prefer Konsole.


Yours,

Shaun Laughey.
Technical Director
Py r2 Ltd.
Linux Integration Specialists.

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 01:30 +0600, Emon wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I running Slackware10.2 with KDE desktop. Since Slacwkare10.2 Gnome has
> been dropped from the vanilla packages. I didn't mind because I never
> used Gnome. But you can still get unofficial Gnome pkg from FREEROCK,
> DROPLINE & others like them. Having shifted to Linux from Windoz, I
> found KDE easier to use. But my question is why are some people
> (especially the old guards :) I think ) still seem to be obsessed with
> Gnome?? Is there any reason in particular, or is it just nostalgia?
> 
> Also there are some applications which are very very dependent on Gnome,
> like Evolution, Gnomemeeting to name a few. Why does applications have
> to be so Gnome dependent, can't they be a bit more independent??
> 
> Hope I asked the questions right.
> 
> Thanks
> Emon
> 
> 
> 
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