From: valen at domain tuatha.org
Date: Fri 20 Aug 1999 - 09:58:39 IST
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:22:40AM +0100, Trevor Johnston mentioned:
> I have neither KDE nor Gnome on my Redhat Linux machine - before I start
> the long process of downloading the latest version and installing one of
> them, can anyone advise me as to which is best, which has the best
> future, the best support, etc., etc.?
It depends on yourself. I wholeheartily recommend you try both. At the
moment, GNOME promises a stunning framework for applications, though at the
moment, we've not seen much of that yet. It's futuristic, but incomplete,
as far as the GNOME roadmap is concerned. If you are a GUI developer -
GNOME is the future, and you should get ready for it.
KDE is a full environment now, in the standard sense of the word. A lot of
people don't like it - it's very simple to use (and reminds people of
MS-Windows and CDE, which are disliked by a lot of people), it's not as
snappy as some GNOME for some stuff - though the filemanager, and it's
integration with the other KDE tools is excellent.
However, as has been pointed out, it's not either-or. I run enlightenment
(which is GNOME enabled, to a degree), with the GNOME panel, and ETerms
(which aren't GNOME or KDE apps). I think the GMC file manager that GNOME
comes with is a bit crap; KFM allows me to drag&drop stuff into kpilot
(KDE's Palm Pilot Sync tool - GNOME's one, although much better designed is
still unusable at the moment).
The GNOME and KDE people have done a lot of interoperability work, so by
and large, it shouldn't matter what you use; it'll all work together.
However, I don't actually run KDE applications all the time; I think it's
a waste to load the complex GTK/GNOME and QT widget sets all the time. If
you can manage to just use one environment, do so; it'll save 10MB of RAM.
Try it out. It's not as if you have to pay for it, or anything ;) Though
it should be pointed out, that you should use a modern distribution with
GNOME. It's still in development as far as I'm concerned. They were in such
a hurry to get GNOME 1.0 out the door, that it's barely of Beta quality -
install the version that comes with RedHat 6.0, and install the RedHat
updates. KDE is quite stable.
Kate
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:04:29 GMT