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gymophett
February 11th, 2009, 07:56 PM
I use Gnome, I've never thought about trying KDE.
Which do you think is better?
Titan8990
February 11th, 2009, 07:58 PM
This is 100% personal preference. Any information you get from this post will be worthless at best.


Try it yourself.....
jrusso2
February 11th, 2009, 07:59 PM
We just had this thread its on the forum. This should be in recurring discussions.
bodhi.zazen
February 11th, 2009, 09:05 PM
Moved :twisted:

Use what you want and be quiet about it already ;)
cardinals_fan
February 11th, 2009, 10:08 PM
dwm
C!oud
February 11th, 2009, 10:42 PM
twm
Rokurosv
February 12th, 2009, 12:34 AM
Stumpwm
chucky chuckaluck
February 12th, 2009, 11:20 PM
if you want to try kde, try the slax livecd that uses kde3. kde4 is like a loud, drunk version of e17.
Tux Aubrey
February 12th, 2009, 11:47 PM
I use a quiet and sober build of e17.
MikeTheC
February 13th, 2009, 12:38 AM
This is like saying "What's the best mouse?" or "What's the best keyboard?"

Until you try what's out there, you'll never know what will or won't work for you.
Faolan84
February 13th, 2009, 02:24 AM
What's wrong with being load and drunk? I love my family.

Anyways, all kidding aside, Gnome is much better than KDE. I would not have said that a year ago, but with all the headway Gnome has made in the last 5 or so releases and with the fact the KDE 4.x still isn't really an improvement to KDE 3.5 which is pretty much legacy software, I have come to feel that Gnome is the best desktop environment right now. It does everything I want a DE to do although it could have more options here and there and the Gnome team should work on adding options only available via GConf to the application preferences itself.

Also I'd like to see something like the Mac menu feature option in KDE 3 added to Gnome. Yes, I know about the patch, but the patch sucks because it's a lot of work to get up and running and it doesn't agree with some programs. Plus with a patched version of GTK+ it creates a problem with users who don't want that feature on a multiuser system.

As for KDE 4, I might go back to using it around 4.3 or so, but by then Gnome have progressed too, so I'll probably just stick with Gnome unless KDE completely blows me away at that point.
Tibuda
February 13th, 2009, 05:53 AM
Also I'd like to see something like the Mac menu feature option in KDE 3 added to Gnome. Yes, I know about the patch, but the patch sucks because it's a lot of work to get up and running and it doesn't agree with some programs. Plus with a patched version of GTK+ it creates a problem with users who don't want that feature on a multiuser system.

It's not a patch anymore, you can add a PPA repository to your list, download a deb package from synaptic, add the applet to the panel, right click the applet and click "enable global menu for GTK applications". (see here (http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/Installation))
lakersforce
February 13th, 2009, 05:55 AM
WMII all the way!!
Faolan84
February 13th, 2009, 03:03 PM
I always prefer to wait for stuff like that to hit the repositories. It's always worth the wait when stability is on your mind. It would be cool to see this feature added for GTK+ 3.0 which I hear is just goint to be the version of GTK+ supplied with Gnome 3.0 which in turn is just going to be Gnome 2.30.

However, it proably is a more minor change it will probably be included in the main trunk by 2.26 or 2.28. I just prefer that extra bit of community support that comes with being in the main GTK+ branch instead of having to use an alternate version of GTK (which is how I understand it works).