Switching to Gnome from KDE

[Carlos Alberto]

On 10/11/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> After playing with Gnome a bit, I _might_ switch from KDE. I need to
> know these few things first:
>
> 1) Which text editor can I use to replace Kate? I specifically need to
> bookmark directories on remote machines inside the editor interface.
> Kate, via the fish protocol (ssh), is perfect for this. Has Gnome an
> equivelent?
>
> 2) As I place the Windows List on the right side of the screen, I want
> it to display only the icons for the windows, not the title. How do I
> disable the title display?
>
> 3) The desktop icons are a mess of different sizes. How do I define a
> single, uniform size for them, such as displayed in Nautilus? There
> seems to be no option for such anywhere I look.
>
> 4) Although I can browse remote machines via FTP in Nautilus, when I
> open a file for editing I cannot save it. How do I enable save for
> files that I open? As I thought that it may be a permissions problem
> (even though I can save those files when opened in KDE) I tried to
> check their permissions and got this error: "The permissions of xxx
> cannot be determined". Why?
>
> Dotan Cohen

May I ask why do you wish to switch from kde to Gnome?