On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 19:13, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > So, before I do something irreversable, which is the preferred desktop ? > > Some peolle seem not to like kde (3) and other seems to love it. > > Any advice please ? > >
Use twm until things are standardised ;) KDE has its strengths, Gnome has its strengths. At present, Debian does not have *fully Debian-classed stable* editions of either KDE or Gnome's latest generations - Gnome is version 1.4 with a handful of Gnome 2 support modules having made it to unstable (and more, but not all, in the normally not officially available and supported *experimental* area), while KDE is at version 2.2 with the current version 3 available via KDE. The two systems are each nice, powerful, generally complete, and not directly compatible with each other. Gnome seems to have a more heterogenous choice of applications from my experience, partly due to retrofitting some existing software with Gnome widgets, and partly due to it originating with the Free Software Foundation (hence the prevalence of "G" in all manner of names - the GNU nomenclature.) KDE's applications tend to have started out with a central inventory of applications, functionality and performance that needed to be provided to create a desktop environment, and combined with a period of difficulties over that licensing terms of a key component (the Qt libraries), tend to be a more homogeneous selection of specific applications. Your preferences will likely make one more comfortable for you than the other. Both have superceded the positions of some other environments that were otherwise slipping from the list of *most popular* window managers, particularly CDE. You hear less and less about some interesting programming exercises such as Enlightenment (not to say it is disappearing, just that it isn't mentioned as much,) and even FVWM, OpenLook have slipped from the discussion. WindowMaker and BlackBox seem to be two of the few that haven't been forgotten in this period, partly due to ongoing development and the focus each has on its own design goals. HTH -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
