Vikram Hegde wrote: > Hi, > > I believe KDE has some killer desktop apps, and their suite of apps is > complete and full-featured. Try out Kmail - it is amazing. IMHO the best > graphical mail client on any platform. In general it is a more "complete" > desktop i.e. if you install it, it installs everything you possibly could need > (even on opensolaris). GNOME apps don't have all the features or even utility > of the corresponding K* apps > > I do have KDE running via the IPS packages at bionicmutton.org (see > opensolaris.org. There are also instructions to build KDE for opensolaris. > Search for KDE community/project on opensolaris. The KDE on opensolaris > is quite complete - it has everything you need. If not, please join the > effort > to make KDE on opensolaris better.
couldn't agree more - I switched back to using KDE4 on opensolaris last week (using the method mentioned earlier in this thread) because it's just so much more configurable than gnome. One thing I did notice: KDE requires some *G*PU power, or things will get really slow. Michael > > Vikram > > On Tuesday 15 December 2009 10:14:24 am Uros Nedic wrote: >> My general questions are still valid but I would like to know how did you >> integrateKDE with OpenSolaris (I know for Korona, but it looks like it is >> not completelyKDE+SunOS), and do you think that application support for >> KDE is larger than forGNOME and Xfce? Uros >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men >> is primarily based on mutual trust and only >> secondarily on institutions such as courts of >> justice and police." >> >> - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) >> >>> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:00:46 -0800 >>> From: Vikram.Hegde at Sun.COM >>> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] GNOME vs KDE vs Xfce vs Win7DWM vs Apple >>> Quartz? To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> CC: urosn at live.com >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> [removed GNOME mailing list because I don't want to be flamed by >>> gnome-fans] >>> >>> From personal experience I prefer KDE because it is a *lot more* >>> functional than GNOME. As far as consumption of CPU resources IMHO GNOME >>> and KDE are equal and XFCE is much lighter. >>> >>> Vikram >>> >>> On Tuesday 15 December 2009 09:37:44 am Uros Nedic wrote: >>>> I would like to start one discussion regarding efficiency of thesefive >>>> desktop environments. Which is the biggest memory consumer,which is >>>> faster, which has better architectural designed and hasbetter future >>>> over others, etc.? Could we make consensus which is the fastest desktop >>>> environmentor not? Waiting for response,Uros Nedic >>>> >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>> "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men >>>> is primarily based on mutual trust and only >>>> secondarily on institutions such as courts of >>>> justice and police." >>>> >>>> - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) >>>> >>>> >>>> _________________________________________________________________ >>>> Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you?re up to >>>> on Facebook. >>>> >>>> http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-actio >>>> n/s >>>> ocial-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_2: >>>> 0920 09 >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Windows Live Hotmail: Your friends can get your Facebook updates, right >> from Hotmail?. >> http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/s >> ocial-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_4:0920 >> 09 >> > -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
