Re: [ILUG] Re: Gnome vs KDE

From: Miles (kcolfer at domain iol.ie)
Date: Fri 20 Aug 1999 - 10:32:06 IST


On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 valen at domain tuatha.org wrote:
>
> 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.

Speaking of CDE and KDE, I'm running KDE under solaris here, and most of
the dtapps actualy look better running under KDE than they do under CDE.
The fonts, widgets etc. look cleaner somehow. I might try and get GNOME,
see what that looks like under Solaris. Anyone try it yet?

        Ciao,
                Miles (Kieran Colfer)

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The pessimist fears this is true."



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