On Freitag 26 März 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:37:04 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > >> yeah, digikam is great. i tried it on kde. but i am using gnome, and i > >> want to keep my system compact. > > > > Then why are you using GNOME? > > so, you mean kde is more compact than gnome? but i found it took me > much longer time to build kde than to build gnome. > > actually, i were using kde for a while, and just want to switch to > gnome to see how the system works. anyway, many other linux distros > use gnome as the standard desktop, i think there's a reason.
Novell took over Ximian - a gnome company. Then Suse - and tried to kill KDE in Suse. Redhat always was gnome shop for no good reasons at all. Also many KDE haters there. Debian used gnome in the past for licencing reasons. Today they should use KDE for licencing reasons. No reason at all to use gnome. Ubuntu uses just what debian uses. Because they are leeches. If you want a free* system, gnome is not a choice. *free as defined by FSF - unrelated to freedom,
