Gnome users who have tried KDE: convince me!

[Florian Diesch]

"Joep L. Blom" <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> writes:

> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Due to an ancient, critical bug in KDE I have started using the
>> Nautilus file manager:
>> Wrong timestamp on files copied
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55804
>> 
>> I love it! I might try Gnome for a few days on a test machine to see
>> what else is good there. Gnome users, please let me know what features
>> to try that are missing from KDE so that I can be sure to try them, as
>> I won't have time to try everything. In other words, what keeps you on
>> Gnome?

I don't like the look of KDE and most programs I use are using Gtk


> AS you wanted to know why people use Gnome here are my reasons.
> I use gnome from its beginning. I came from SuSe (the initiators of KDE) 

KDE was founded by Matthias Ettrich when he a student. SuSE has been one
of the early supporters of KDE and AFAIK still employs many KDE developers.

> where I ran Gnome (it's older than KDE). 

No. Gnome was written as a free alternative for KDE - Qt was just free
to use for non-commercial use at that time.



   Florian
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