Gnome or KDE?

[Matthew S-H]

I just started using KDE yesterday.  Installed it via Synaptic.  I 
still have GNOME as the default, but I am running over in my mind 
whether or not to change it.  KDE seems very nice and a lot more 
polished.  I might have a few suggestions for it though.  Any idea 
where I might submit these suggestions?  I don't yet have the 
programming knowledge to implement them myself.  But I am pretty sure 
they wouldn't be too hard to implement and would require nearly no 
resources.

Also, how can I activate VNC via KDE?  I have it running automatically 
on GNOME and I use it to connect to my Ubuntu box from my Mac over my 
WLAN/LAN.  I probably am just missing something stupid, but I don't 
know where to activate it.  Anyone with any idea?  Thank you very much.


~Matt



On Apr 20, 2005, at 4:32 AM, audriusb at homelan.lt wrote:

> 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
>
>>
>> Ok, here's the "skinny" on Xfce.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lots of customized features - windows, icons, wallpapers and
>> backgrounds -- pretty much what you want.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> All in all Xfce takes us further away from Windows and closer to MacOS
>> - at least in terms of looks. Functionally it is different.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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