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Originally posted by sabriah View PostStill, I am at a loss why Gnome 2.x/3.0 and Unity still are the main favorites for most distros.
The 'start menu' alone in KDE is enough to put me off using it in place of Gnome 2.x.
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Originally posted by movieman View PostGnome 2.x is the default because most people value a clean and simple interface over fancy compsititing effects. You may have noticed that hardly anyone seems to like Gnome 3.x or Unity with their clunky and slow replacements for simple menu interfaces.
The 'start menu' alone in KDE is enough to put me off using it in place of Gnome 2.x.
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Originally posted by sabriah View PostStill, I am at a loss why Gnome 2.x/3.0 and Unity still are the main favorites for most distros.
KDE is one of the most active FOSS communities. It wouldn't be if KDE made lots of things wrong.
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Originally posted by sabriah View PostYes, I'm a KDE fan, even before the numbers were out here on Phoronix - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...anagers1&num=1
Still, I am at a loss why Gnome 2.x/3.0 and Unity still are the main favorites for most distros.
I guess the political side of it should have died a decade ago when Qt went GPL and later went LGPL.
What are the motives for retaining Gnome, seriously? Yes, seriously, as I don't understand that.
From what I have understood KDE can do anything Gnome can do and KDE does things Gnome cannot do (e.g. the scalability of a vector graphics desktop and a lean one at that). Even if I'm a general ignoramus I am still open to counterarguments.
Please educate me.
And with gnome 3, gnome continues to go in a very separate direction from KDE. I much prefer gnome-shell's simple, slick, and polished approach to kde4.
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Originally posted by lolren View PostWell,i hope kde works now on my samsung nc10 notebook.until now,i have no desktop effects.im forced to use gnome
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Originally posted by sabriah View Post
I do like some of the things KDE is doing. They have some really cool, modern stuff going on under the hood. But for me the interface is my worst nightmare.
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KDE's composited performance on the open source radeon driver was horrible up until about a year ago, but the driver has drastically improved since then to the point where I have no complaints. This is on Fedora.
As for the menus, both KDE and Gnome have quick keyboard based launchers that I find much better than any menu/icon based launcher. Alt+F2, type the first 3 letters and what I want to launch, and it is instantly found. I literally have no icons on my desktop. KDE configuration dialogs need a lot of tidying up -- there's absolutely no denying that -- but I put up with that because I prefer eventually finding what I'm looking for to quickly finding out that what I'm looking for isn't an option. If for whatever reason I had to mess with the settings more often it'd be a problem, but I've had the same home directory for years, and everything is already set the way I like it.
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