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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. Moaning Gnome Users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thanks for the graphic imagery *puts breakfast back on shelf*

  2. 10 random reason why gnome sucks (karma be dammed) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    10) Registry editor clone (gconf-editor).
    9) "Instant Apply" techology that can accidently cause damage (Ooops, I selected hello.jpg as my wallpaper instead of fish.jpg)
    8) Weather applet that shows fahrenheit by default (Hello, the wolrd is != USA)
    7) The half assed way of changing screen resolutions. The Xrandr hack is useless if you want to change colour depth.
    6) No easy way to edit menus. With windows I can right click the menu and rename, edit, and drag and drop entries. You are at the mercy of your distro's complex heiracrhy without editing text files.
    5) Nautilus, half asssed file management with no "real" features. Guess whos using konqueror.
    4) Its word processor (Abi word office) has no table support
    3) The clock, in its asswipe MM/DD format (again W!=USA)
    2) The file dialog (no further comment)

    And last but not least

    *drumroll*

    1) HAVOC PENNINGTON

    The person who took gnome from being a KDE Kass Kicker in 1.4 to a VTECH Whizzkid computer in 2.3. Give us back our features and shove your "HIG" up your millimetre dick!

  3. *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.

    --
    Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
  4. Re:In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    nice troll, asshat.

    fact is that KDE is YEARS behind GNOME in usability. or did you think that enterprises prefer GNOME-based distros because of 'teh 3vil'?

    go sit on a chainsaw.