Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there will be enough answers, and they will make sense, I'll publish > a summary. I ask in advance, that when such a summary is published, > please don't take it's results as a proof for anything, and don't > conclude that one product is superior. > > Disclaimer: I must admit that I have no opinion or idea what desktop is > better; Otherwise, maybe I would not publish such a survey... ;-)
I don't have an opinion either, and I don't mind being public. Counting my two machines at home and my workstation at work, I guess I control 3 machines. My answers are for all the 3. > Questions: > ========== > My desktop environment management is: > ------------------------------------- > 1. Only KDE. > 2. I prefer KDE. > 3. Both. > 4. I prefer Gnome. > 5. Only Gnome. > 0. None. Here I have a problem. Nominally, I am a KDE user, because that's what starts up when I log in. I also configure look-and-feel and windows behaviour and the KDE Panel etc via the KDE control center. However, I don't use any KDE or GNOME app on a regular basis (XEmacs, plain old xterm, Mozilla most often as my browser). I have used various KDE and GNOME apps when I needed them on occasion, but normally none of them is present on my desktop. So I am somewhere between 1 and 0 here. You decide. > > Reasons (please check all that apply): > -------------------------------------- > A. Better Hebrew support. > B. Licensing. > C1. Similarity to Windows GUI. > C2. Difference from Windows GUI. > D. My company/organization dictates/recommends this desktop. > E1. This is the only desktop coming with my distribution. > E2. This is the default desktop that my distribution offers. > E3. This is the desktop that is best supported by my distribution. > F. I use an application(s) that runs better under this desktop (please > detail - which app). > G1. Historical reasons. > G2. I've got used to this desktop. > G3. I have a lot of existing configurations/customizations for this > desktop, and/or existing investments. > H. Another reason (PLEASE DETAIL) I guess G1 and G2 (and they imply G3 - I know how to configure stuff in KDE because I have been using it for quite a while) apply. None of the others do. When RH came out with GNOME, I tried it, but it slowed down my poor old Pentium noticeably. At about the same time someone showed me KDE, and I wasn't particularly impressed, thought tried it. I stayed with fvwm2 for quite a while since then, but at some point switched. KDE was less a resource hog than GNOME, and I didn't care that it was not GPLed as long as I could use it legally. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Taking any religion too seriously ... can be hazardous to your health." [Richard M. Stallman] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
