Fedora <-> kde

Jim Cornette jim-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Jan 27 12:46:19 UTC 2004


Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 02:12, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
>>There is a feature that KDE has and GNOME does not in the current 
>>development mix. KDE has menus and GNOME does not.
>>
>>This gave me a chance to use KDE a bit until the menus get fixed with GNOME.
>>
>>I like having both window-managers around and use software that is 
>>developed within both managers.
> 
> 
> Neither GNOME nor KDE are window manager per se. That are full desktop
> environments. Metacity is the default window manager (but you can use
> Sawdish) for GNOME, while KWin4 is the default window manager for KDE
> (but you can use IceWM)
> 
> 

Thanks for pointing out that both use window managers and change to 
different ones throughout their versions. (Enlightenment, sawfish, 
metacity, etc: )


It is a bit confusing with the GNOME project and KDE project actually 
using different window managers throughout their cycle.

Jim





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