is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

[Robin Laing]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:53 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
>>  
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com>
>> wrote:
\SNIP

> the truth is though, that he is not the only one who switched from KDE
> to GNOME. It's about the expectations.
>
When I installed F10 on the first machine, I tried Gnome and was so 
frustrated.  I tried to switch to KDE but I couldn't get it to work but 
that was my fault.  I didn't know about the session selector in GDM and 
was trying switch desktop function.

After playing with Gnome, I found the same frustrations.  Some nice 
improvements over the version in F7 but still reminded me of using MS 
Windows.  No real control to improve the efficiency.

KDE 4.1 is pretty good.  I am having some weird issues that I don't like 
but I have not had a chance to figure out all the changes.  I hear 4.2 
is so much better than 4.2 so I think I will be really happy.  Of course 
that is after I change the menu back to the classic menu from the Vista 
like menu.

My daughter prefers Gnome over KDE because KDE makes here think of Macs 
and she has had her fair share of nightmares with Mac's.




> I personally agree that I would rather be using the KDE on F10 than
> GNOME but not everyone who disagrees is inherently wrong.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 

I will drink to that.  To each their own.  The person that turned me 
onto KDE now uses Gnome but is thinking of checking it out again when 
4.2 comes out.


-- 
Robin Laing