Gnome vs KDE

[Arthur Pemberton]

David Curry wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>> Hi
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>>> I'm quite certain that a GNOME desktop as delivered by GNOME and a KDE
>>> desktop as delivered by KDE - without Red Hat / Fedora alterations 
>>> might
>>> demonstrate some of the differences more readily.
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>> not true anymore. both kde and gnome are pretty close to the upstream
>> versions in fedora
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> FWIW, the CD drive mounting problem is not confined to Fedora Core 
> distribution.  In FC2 using a KDE 3.2 variant, I simply cannot mount 
> either of my CD-ROM or CD-RW drives.  A few days ago, running a Gnome 
> desktop I downloaded and burned a LiveCD distribution named 
> SimplyMEPIS which uses KDE3.3 on top of a Debian distribution.
> I was able to boot from the LiveCd in the CD-RW drive without any 
> problems but could not then mount the CD-ROM.  One conspicuous 
> difference between the KDE desktop MEPIS was the placement of CD drive 
> icons on the desktop compared to having CD drives buried in submenus 
> on the KDE (and Gnome) desktop(s) in FC2.
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I'd like to hope that everyone complaining of this issue has filed 
appropriate bug reports.