GNOME or KDE

[janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:37:05 +0200
  "Ben Edwards" <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> I prefer gnome cos I find it less cluttered and more 
> elegant.

I think I am in for this reason also, but there's the 
unpleasant issue that has been discussed every once in a 
while in different forums; Gnome tends to over-simplify 
configuration of some applications. I would not go as far 
as some, even quite respected countrymen of mine ( ;-) ) 
and blame it stupifying, but sometimes you gotta wonder if 
there could be more choices for accomplishing some 
actions. People tell me that in KDE you have broader 
selection of manual tweaking, I cannot tell since the 
general outlook makes me ick, at least on default 
settings. :) But, maybe in the future I might have to 
rethink this, as I am from the (rare?) breed of users who 
want to tweak, if need be, but also like if much of the 
system works as-is.

> I also think that the fact that Ubuntu is naively Gnome...
<snip>

Okay, that line above made me post. I really had nothing 
to say that important that it needed a post (unless you 
take my first paragraph as such), but I wanted to quote 
that. :)

Naively Gnome. I like that. :) The rest of that paragraph 
probably holds water, I would think most of the 
development version is being tested in Gnome. Dev's have a 
chance to prove me wrong, of course. I don't think there's 
been a poll like that.


-- 
Jaska