My wife and I use KDE. I, mainly because I don't see the point in having
multiple GUIs (they're not that facinating to me (other than to get into the
source code), but for my wife, I find that for someone coming from using
Windows, it seems that out of the box, KDE seems to have a stronger appeal
to her than Gnome. Although, the environment she really took to was XFCE
(though it's not a choice in this discussion).

In looking at Holly's post, I'm inclined to agree. Being that most of the
stuff I do (besides surf the net), but things like programming, moving
files, your general admin stuff, configuration changes, etc I (like most of
us here --probably) do from a command-line.

My selling point for the command-line is I don't have to learn any new menus
to use it ;), but to each his own.

Shawn

On 1/20/06, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
>
> Neil Bothwick schreef:
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote:
> >
> >> I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular.
> >
> > Why? Use whatever suits you.
> >
>
> I hope that you all appreciate my extreme restraint in not posting to
> this thread until now, given how very much I dislike KDE.
>
> But for the record, just so that all you KDE-heads don't skew the
> results com*plete*ly:
>
> I always (from my first attempts at Linux some 3 years ago) preferred
> GNOME to KDE. Never liked Nautilus, though (it's tied for second on my
> list of "most hated file managers"), and since I've never been fond of
> desktop icons and all that cr... junk... I still found it too heavy. So I
> switched to Openbox 3 (with a GTK "backend"), and now I use fvwm-crystal
> (with a GTK "backend"). Gnome-light is (always) installed, but I don't
> use it as a desktop.
>
> I have only two KDE-specific applications that I would not do without
> (both compiled -kde and -arts to the greatest extent possible): Krusader
> (though this needs Konq and some other KDE utils for best usage, as it
> recognizes KDE apps much much better than GTK apps for viewing files and
> the like), and K3b. These apps require kdebase, so I've got that, but
> the day you see me logging into KDE, you can rest assured that either:
>
> 1) my system is so seriously broke that it's the only DE/WM I can get
> into (which is pretty unlikely. I mean, I've got iceWM and *afterstep*
> on the system, for Pete's sake; the day that doesn't work but KDE does
> will be... "The" day);
>
> or
>
> 2) I have been replaced by an alien clone (shoot first, ask questions
> later).
>
> I prefer to use GTK-based applications wherever possible because I find
> them more attractive in general, and I'm more used to them (as a GNOME
> user originally), unless they're junk, like Totem, in which case I use
> "non-affiliated" programs like Xine or mPlayer. Yes, I know Totem can be
> configured to use a Xine backend. Imo, there's no point; if that's the
> only way Totem works, I might as well just use Xine. Plus I want to see
> when gStreamer gets its act together. However I have no objection to
> QT-based apps (as opposed to KDE apps) when necessary. It does need to
> be "necessary", though (meaning, if I need it, I'll install qdvdauthor,
> because there's no GTK alternative that I know of, but I can just as
> well use the CLI original, unless the GUI version has some additional
> feature or makes it easier to understand than the CLI version's man page).
>
> So anyway, Neil is of course right: use what you want; it's *your*
> desktop (finally!). I don't need a whole lot of GUI features (in fact I
> dislike a whole lot of GUI features), so KDE is not for me, the one who
> never liked Windows(-like) desktops, even when I was using Windows; I
> used an alternative shell from my Win98 days on. But for those who feel
> more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like
> assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be
> just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do to a great
> extent.
>
> You can have it, though. I'll be elsewhere.
>
> Holly
>
>
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