is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

[Robin Laing]

Armin wrote:
> On Monday 02 February 2009 13:54:00 Robin Laing wrote:
>> 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

>> 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.
> 
> Ok, honestly, I have been trying to find out what do you guys in kick-off that 
> is like window$, but I have yet to find out.  I don't see anything to be the 
> same except that there are some things and you click on them.
> 

I find the way the menu is now into multi-levels in KDE to be like my 
experience with Vista and XP without the classic interface.  To many 
clicks/mouse motions to get to where I want to be.

I prefer the classic menu as it drops one more 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.
> 
> that's the first time I'm hearing this.
> 

I wouldn't know how similar it is but those are her thoughts.  I will 
try to convert her.  :)

>>> 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.
> 
> KDE 4.2 is already out and I'v been using it for 2 months now (from RC) and 
> the final came out last tuesday.  You can get it from kde-redhat repo.
> 

I don't have that repo but I will have to get it.



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>> Robin Laing
> 


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