Gnome or KDE?

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Quoting Psquared <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>:

Don't mix different things:
   1) KDE and GNOME - both are integrated fool-featured integrated environments
      and old concurents; main issue of KDE and GNOME is that both they eat many
      computer resources; some years I found that KDE is a bit faster than
      GNOME, but on my today AMD64 computer with 1GB memory GNOME works
      excellent and I don't wont to waste a time installing KDE and studying
      what have been changed in this system after I switched on GNOME.
   2) old-fashion Window managers (Window maker, Enlightment, IceWM) and newest
      lightweight environments (BlackBox, XFCE) are designed for old slow
      computers with low memory where GNOME and KDE cannot be installed because
      of very slow proccessing. I am using IceWM on my Intel MMX (200MHz) with
      64 MB memory and this ancient computer works for me! I am using it as
      standalone computer for little tasks or as X-terminal, attached to AMD64.

Gediminas Bukauskas

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> Ok, here's the "skinny" on Xfce.
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> Oveall, its bigger and slower than it used to be. I think all DEs go
> through this and when they reach critical mass they start writing the
> code to make them faster. It is faster than Gnome though on my laptop
> it is not a lot faster. I can't compare KDE except what I had on FC2. I
> hated it. The only thing I liked about KDE was that the icons on the
> panel enlarged when you passed your mouse over them so you could read
> what they said a bit easier. I don't think either Gnome or Xfce can do
> that.
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> Xfce now has menus and a panel at the bottom which you can customize. I
> don't know about desktop icons. I don't think there are any. It also has
> a panel at the top. You can autohide both to have more desktop space.
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> Lots of customized features - windows, icons, wallpapers and
> backgrounds -- pretty much what you want.
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> The main drawback for me is that the menu structure is poor. I have two
> different submenus with OpenOffice programs, a Debian entry that does
> nothing, and the desktop, window borders and icon theme sub-menu items
> and names are poorly thought out. If I could figure out how to modify
> the menu I would.
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> All in all Xfce takes us further away from Windows and closer to MacOS
> - at least in terms of looks. Functionally it is different.
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> Oh, and install it using the binary installer from os-cillation. You
> get the latest version and you can install the "goodies" package
> separately. The only problem I had was the the "panel" didn't show at
> first, but once I started it manually from a terminal it was fine.
> Music plays well as do DVDs.
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> I would love to see a gui for menu editing (very limited right now) and
> arranging menus and submenus. I suppose this could be done manually
> right now, but I don't know how.
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