Switching to Gnome from KDE

[Dotan Cohen]

On 11/10/06, Carlos Alberto <latinbits at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

For one, I'm helping a few friends jump on the Ubuntu bandwagon, and
I'd like to be as familiar with the default UI as possible. That means
actually using it.

For another, I actually do like the latest Gnome in Ubuntu. I find
that KDE is stuffing too many buttons on the UI of otherwise simple
programs. I find the clean look of Gnome appealing.

I'm also using F-Spot quite a bit now. And my machine can't handle
having two desktops loaded at once- it slows the machine down
terribly. If F-Spot didn't depend on the Gnome libraries it would be a
different story.

Another reason is the fact that the scrollbars change colour when I
mouse over them. With my vision, that's nice. KDE may be able to do
that as well, though I haven't looked into it.

Dotan Cohen

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