Ubuntu KDE

[Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN]

first of all, i'm not in favor of 1 or the other.
i think there does need to be a default but that default oughta be easy to
change from w/out breaking things. beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

as an cmd line user from pdp-11 thru now, i just dont get too excited about
any of this stuff. as long as IT works, i user IT.

~piranha

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Romeyn
Prescott
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 12:31 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Ubuntu KDE


At 3:06 PM -0500 12/5/04, Viro scribbled:

<whole lotta snippage>

>That's all very nice, but you haven't given a reason why KDE is
>necessary. GNOME has everything   it needs to be a commercial success.
>There is a tight integration between the applications, the interface is
>a lot cleaner than KDE, there is less clutter in the menus, and Ubuntu
>does a very good job of making everything work together.
>


OK...even though I'm in favor of sticking with one or the other...and 
I like gnome...I don't DISlike KDE.  The few times I've tried it it 
seemed OK.

I'm no expert on the vagaries of *ix desktop environments and window 
managers.  Indeed, every time I try to learn about it I get a 
headache and I've given up on searching for Themes because I never 
really know what I'm using and therefore have no idea what'll work. 
(What the hell is "metacity," anyhow? (No, I don't really want an 
answer.))

But it seems to me that your arguments here are spurious at best. 
Both KDE and Gnome can be made to look identical as was demonstrated 
by...what was it...RedHat 8.0?  It didn't matter if you used KDE or 
Gnome, it looked the same.  A DE looks like/is as cluttered as the 
person who designs the distro wants it to be.  It's menus aren't 
inherently chock full o' stuff!

Are they?

...ROMeyn
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