What Gnome has going for it...

[aysiu]

I'm starting two threads--one for the good things about Gnome, another for the good things about KDE. Please do not bash the other desktop environment. Put only positive things. Thanks.

What I love about Gnome...

Renaming preserves the file extension
Easy installation of Gtk and GDM themes
Extensive support and documentation on these forums
Easy movement of trash and clock onto different parts of the panel
System > Preferences > Removable Drives and Media

[benplaut]

also -
quite efficient for those with low screen res
very customizable, if you put in a bit of time
~/Templates
GTK is a very pretty widget set

[JimmyJazz]

Firefox seems to work better in GNOME

[Arktis]

-The Applications/Places/Sytem menu applet.
-The ability to put separate volume sliders for different audio channels side by side in the pannel (such as master and pcm).
-I prefer gnome-terminal, gedit, etc. and a number of other gnome apps that can still be run in other DE's but then become f'ugly.
-'Clearlooks': mmm! Except for the icons. I like to use the 'Flat-Blue' ones.
-Lots of small simple and easy gui config tools, plus gconf-editor.
-Good stability is a major plus

[Knomefan]

Great defaults
beagle

[prizrak]

Excellent GUI tools for hardware control (especially network was painless)
Ability to change Window Managers

[nocturn]

1# The applications:
- Evolution (IMO by far the best Groupware ever), integration of Evo with the clock applet and GAIM
- Gaim is great (although the interface needs some work)
- Good integration with/of FireFox

I actually made the switch to Gnome from KDE because my apps where 90+% GTK.

2# Clean, uncluttered interface with a good balance between features and efficiency.

[gord]

good, well thought out HCI

[jonny]

The best thing about gnome is the things it doesn't do. I love short menus and simple configuration options.

I want to use my computer, not fiddle with it.

[jc87]

- The ability to install new Themes , windows borders , icons , gdm´s , etc ... without trouble.

-Some cool efects , like having a "preview" of images , video , text , etc...

-It seems so "clean" right?

[KiwiNZ]

For me it just seems more organised

[Wolki]

- Spatial Nautilus
- Very powerful panel
- Simple, but extensible
- Mostly sane defaults (I still change tons, but I know what I want; many people can leave them)
- the HIG
- Many applications that go out of your way, and allow you to be efficient
- Evolution/Panel Integration (This is already wonderful, but could be so much better)
- Constant improvements

[ow50]

Two things above all
The GIMP Toolkit (http://www.gtk.org/)
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/)

[Adrian]

Whenever I install Gnome, I always realize how good looking it is. Very polished, and beautiful. You really get the impression that design is truly important for the developers, something that is too uncommon these days.

[gil-galad]

-Free
-Simple. Spatial Nautilus, Well designed UI, great Drag'n'Drop support. Usability is fantastic.
-New versions. They keep a nice schedule and every release seems to fix UI problems I notice.
-Awesome gnome and GTK applications. KDE apps have nothing on them.
-GTK seems to have more mature programming bindings and works better with other languages than Qt. Wxwidgets, mono, python, everything except C++ seem to work better on GTK than Qt.

[xequence]

Gnome is very professional looking by default.

[Knomefan]

-GTK seems to have more mature programming bindings and works better with other languages than Qt. Wxwidgets, mono, python, everything except C++ seem to work better on GTK than Qt.
http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/
http://vizzzion.org/?id=pyqt
http://www.gtkmm.org/

[gil-galad]

http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/
http://vizzzion.org/?id=pyqt
http://www.gtkmm.org/

python-gnome comes with gnome these days, can you say the same for pyQt on KDE or gtkmm on gnome?

Most KDE uses would say that KDE supports C++ better, and from what I know, that is true.

You can find language bindings for any toolkit: windows, qt, or gtk. Some work better in that toolkit than others, however. And gtk seems especially designed to work well with any language.

But I don't really know what I am talking about, so its not worth arguing about. Your post was an informative clarification of my original post, thanks.

[super]

alot! :p

[canadianwriterman]

The best thing GNOME has going for it is Ubuntu! I agree with several previous posts. I've used both GNOME and *** and I find GNOME to be far neater, uncluttered and professional looking. Also, there seems to be a recent renewed interest in GNOME that I believe will lead to additional interface and app development for GNOME.

[super]

the two things that make gnome most attractive for me are:

simple menu organization - the menu is organized so you don't need to 'drill down' thru an endless amount of submenus. (winxp is the worst but even kde can be bad) and the menu application have names that actually describe what they do. (eg. rhythmbox=music player, eog=image viewer)

gtk - this stuff is just plain great!! fast theme engines, lots of potential, and lot's of improvements on the way (i'm particularly looking forward to dynamic theme widgets) i don't like metacity too much tho. i think we are starting to see the limits of it's ability as to themability. bring on something better already! :razz:

[raublekick]

What I love about Gnome in Ubuntu is that I can do almost everything without ever minimizing a window.

All of my drives, the filesystem, and home folder are all available without traversing more than one menu (Places->). All of the system preferences/administratin stuff is available without traversing more than two menus (System->Prefs, System->Admin). The applications are organized neatly.

I can add launchers, a system monitor, and a weather checker to my top panel and it's still not cluttered!

Gnome offers maximum functionality and still looks super clean.

[Lovechild]

* Focus on usability
* Mature platform
* The HIG
* planet.gnome.org
* The GNOME community as a whole

[Rackerz]

I love Gnome because;

• It's simple, easy.
• Powerful
• It's not cluttered
• It's simple, but still looks great!
• It just works, it bonds with my computer.
• It never crashes

It just seems to bond, everything works, nothing goes wrong whenever im doing something. Unless it's Cedega ..

[Qrk]

-Different than other desktops... doesn't suffer from windows cloneship/OS X emulation.
-Every corner of the screen is utilized
-Gnome panels are amazing
-With a 3 part panel and application launchers... programs are never more than a click away.
-Lots of screen space.