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gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba

Posted by Hemos on from the fuel-for-the-fire dept.

Deusy writes "Footnotes is running an update article on gDesklets, Gnome's answer to KDE's Karamba. I've heard a lot of noise with regards to Karamba (and Super Karamba) and a lot of moans from Gnome users about the lack of a Gnome equivalent. Hopefully this should fill that void and more, as one of the developers comments that gDesklets is the product of "months of planning" and describes Karamba as an "ugly hack"."

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  1. *sigh* by Enahs · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    It's true. Even after GNOME's latest bloodletting (cutting of features) KDE still has a smaller memory footprint than GNOME.

    If you're using KDE and GNOME on some unoptimized system (such as, say, Debian or a from-scratch system) GNOME is more responsive than KDE.

    At the risk of starting a flamewar (and keep in mind that I'm a KDE user) GNOME is more user-friendly, IMHO, than KDE. KDE has a nice set of defaults and allows an extreme (some say excessive) level of configurability. GNOME is, well, GNOME. Sometimes it reminds me of MacOS 9. The only thing I miss by not using GNOME, though, is the ability to zoom on images with my scrollwheel. That's it.

    Use whatever works for you. Heck, if TWM and a couple of xterms works for you, use it.

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