Switching to Gnome from KDE

Scott geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Thu Oct 12 07:49:50 UTC 2006


On Thursday 12 October 2006 12:14 am, Dotan Cohen (dotancohen at gmail.com)
spake thusly:

> On 12/10/06, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Personally, I recommend Kate. It has all sorts of great features.
>> (grin!)
> 
> I know. I'm madly in love with her, and I'll be hard to give her up. I
> thought that _maybe_ Gnome has something similar.

Kate is the best text editor I've ever used.   The closest thing GNOME
has is Gedit. But in fact it's not even close.

>> Switching from Gnome to KDE is neither irrevocable nor absolute --
>> install both, and use what you need when you need it!
> 
> Both are installed. My four-year-old box cannot handle the heavy loads
> of having libraries from both desktops open at the same time. So as
> long as I don't open F-Spot I'm fine. But the minute I open it, so
> many Gnome things get loaded that the box can't cope.
> 
> Truth is, if it weren't for F-Spot, I wouldn't even consider
> switching. However, F-Spot is such a great app, that I won't give it
> up, either.

Ever tried KimDaBa?

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        Scott
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