What's your fave--Gnome or KDE
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Sat Mar 6 16:24:11 UTC 2010
On 03/06/2010 03:52 PM, Fred Williams wrote:
>
> On 6 March 2010 15:50, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com
> <mailto:temlakos at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> In looking over the reviews of Fedora 12, I was shocked that a big piece
> of the possible Fedora 12 experience is missing: KDE.
>
> I just discovered KDE. I don't know why I didn't use it sooner than
> this. Now is it just my brand-new hardware, or the massive improvements
> that Fedora has seen over the last several years, or is KDE the desktop
> to beat?
>
> Sure, I had a learning curve--like how to use the new Desktop Folder as
> a widget, and how the wallpaper actually shows through it wherever you
> need to place it. And how to use Desktop Activities, and the K App
> Launcher. But these seem vastly superior to Gnome. Add to it that I've
> been using a lot of KDE-specific apps, all of which had a problem
> loading into the Gnome system tray--but with KDE, no problem.
>
> I can't be the only KDE fan here. What does everybody else think?
>
> Temlakos
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> There is a KDE Respin. Personally I find KDE too restrictive in
> comparison to GNOME, which in turn I find more so than an Openbox
> session. But if KDE is good for you, have a look at the respin.
>
I've been a KDE fan for a long time and I even use knetworkmanager for
my network connection management. Once you get it setup, it really does
simplify networking. As for KDE being restrictive, I just reverted to
folder view for the desktop, and job done.
JB
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