eWeek Reviews Gnome 2.8 And KDE 3.3

prostoalex writes "eWeek Labs reviewed the latest editions of GNOME and KDE desktop environments, and for all the criteria that eWeek uses for evaluating the software products ranked 'good,' while usability, capability and reliability for both products ranked 'excellent.' The online version is missing the screenshots and ranking tables that the printed version has, but eWeek likes Evolution (for mail), Konqueror (for file management), Samba and Kopete. They dislike GConf (still complex and a hassle to use) on GNOME and KMail on KDE."

Comments

Re:KMail

[Anonymous Coward]

>But I have faith in the KDE team, and I'm sure
>over time these things will be fixed/improved.

Expecially if you write down your wishlists at bugs.kde.org ;-)

Re:no for both

[Coryoth]

None of these options hold a candle to Rat Poison. Nothing is as simple or minimal as it.

Screen on a console surely. Why bother with all that nasty Xlib library overhead?

And then there's always just the console and ALT-F1 through ALT-F12 (what you don't use 12 virtual consoles?)

But really, who wants all that clunky overhead of actually loading a shell? Far too bloated I say.

Jedidiah.

Win XP Powertoys

[DogDude]

Well, I thought that XP was a bit limiting until a fellow /.er pointed out the Windows XP Powertools. Now, with MS Virtual Desktops and the x-windows style mouse over focus stuff, and the cool alt_tab tool, I don't know what else KDR or Gnome could offer me...

Re:Why one or the other, again?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's your choice. That's what's so great. Those of us with a gig of ram and huge e-penises can run both. Thsoe who'd rather not don't have to.

Re:I like both

[Kethinov]

Do you like both vim and emacs too?