On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 18:20, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have some questions about the Gnome desktop, and would like your feedback.
I've been using KDE for about a year now, I chose it initially mostly because of Konqueror, and its' ability to split the window horizontally and vertically, and save "view profiles" which I find extremely useful.
Every so often I check out Gnome, but the file manager seems overly simple for my needs, so I switch back. I get the feeling that there must be more to Gnome than I can see on the surface...
So my question is, Why do you use Gnome over other options? What are its' pros and cons? What do you love about it?
1) GNOME is simple, clean, and usually works "the way I expect", which is the key to comfort with any interface.
2) GNOME is highly configurable in both behavior and appearance. I far prefer the way GNOME handles panels to KDE.
3) GNOME applications can be tightly integrated leading to a more seamless environment.
4) GNOME is very flexible and modular. Personally, I don't like Metacity (the default GNOME window manager), so I replaced it with XFWM4 (from XFCE). I also use Konqueror instead of Nautilus most of the time (of course this requires having a minimal amount of KDE libraries installed).
On a related note, since I was so impressed with XFWM4, I decided to give a full-blown XFCE desktop a try. I've found it very lightweight and very easy to get used to. I may switch from GNOME to XFCE for a time, but I'll probably end up switching back to GNOME. I was also a WindowMaker user for a long time, but the clean and simple GNOME interface drew me back.