is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

[Alain Roger]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

>
>   I am a long time KDE user - in part for similar reasons to Linus - it
> was configurable, flexible and let me set things up the way I wanted  -
> easily and simply. It had a very nice configuration manager. Gnome by
> contrast was rigid, inflexible and to configure it - the bits  it
> allowed you to -  you needed in part to learn about its registry which
> warned you that the registry editor may corrupt things in bad ways - use
> at your risk. Gnome was undergoing rapid changes - metacity went through
> a lot before it was stable .. kde all the while was pretty stable.
>
>  That was the way things used to be. Now KDE is harder to configure,
> not as flexible and is difficult if not impossible to set up the way I
> like things (task manager showing 1 icon per console or per firefox, the
> workspace chooser in the middle, the ability to click and save a session
> etc etc).
>
>  So what I am seeing is some of the KDE users I know are slowly giving
> up and moving back to gnome - its the default windowing
> manager/environment on fedora and ubuntu and seems more mature and
> stable than KDE 4 - and since as far as configurability goes, KDE has
> little advantage to offer at this time. Perhaps the next version, or the
> one after that will bring back the advantages. Maybe by 4.2 or 4.3 or
> 4.4 or... 5.0 ..
>
>  So seeking guidance from the path others are choosing:
>
>  (1)  Are the fedora KDE users moving back to gnome ? ... is KDE dead
> or alive ?
>
>  (2) Are there fedora Gnome users moving to KDE ? It is after all very
> similar in its function now ... and does not use spatial mode by default
> (;-).
>
>  Be very interested in hearing what thoughts others are having.
>
>  gene
>
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Personally i've just installed Fedora 10 and now i'm installing KDE 4.1.3.
I like the interface and color choice.
For now i just found in Gnome the terminal features nice...lkike transparent
background... but the menu by itself is horrible as usual :-(
as i come from Windows world the desktop environment in KDE is much more
usable as gnome.

Alain
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