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eWeek Reviews Gnome 2.8 And KDE 3.3

Posted by timothy on from the cross-*nix dept.

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."

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  1. kde by zxflash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    kind of always been partial to kde...
    now and then i read a writup that causes me to install gnome but i have never "switched" or even kept both...

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  2. Re:Gnome == Insanity Box by Coryoth · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I like to keep my home directory looking clean, and when random directories start showing it, it drives me mad. They are: gconfd-adp (adp is my user name) orbit-adp They form when I launch GTK applications, in this case, Mozilla. Any advice?

    Well, something odd is definitely going on. Those directories are created in /tmp usually (just like KDE creates kde-[username] and mcop-[username] in /tmp. Do you have some weird tmp directory settings buried somewhere? Sorry I can't be more help.

    Jedidiah.

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  3. Re:So essentially you are looking for XFCE. by jrockway · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hahah, I use it on a 233MHz G3 with 64M of RAM. Up until a year ago, a 233MHz iMac with 320M of RAM was my main computer! XFCE (and icewm, I like icewm too) saved me.

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  4. Re:no for both by jrockway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I prefer the window-list myself. I don't need a constant reminder of what program are running. That's a waste of screen real-estate IMO.

    I'm glad OS X used this approach to window management. It works out very nicely.

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