First and foremost, there are others REALLY good alternatives to KDE and GNOME in Desktop Managers like WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) but you can live perfeclty well with something like BlackBox (but just a window manager, that can be integrated to the kwc and kpanel) and well, if you don;t have 40 MB Ram to waist in KDE or GNOME, you can live happy with those alternatives . . just a thougt . . . Lionel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:33 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched. Both (K/G) are highly configurable and the Ximian desktop can be configured to look more Windows like or more Mac like... > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Rymshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:29 PM > To: Mandrake help > Subject: [newbie] KDE/Gnome > > > Is there a compare anywhere re the advantages and > disadvantages of KDE vs. Gnome? Is this list and > Mandrake specifically oriented toward KDE? Before > sending this I decided that I aught to check the list > archives and there was *nothing* with Gnome in the > subject. > > I don't think that I want to switch to Gnome, but I > have a couple of reasons. First, I went looking for > what the version already installed was because of my > interest in a home finance program that requires Gnome > 1.4 (can't think of what it's called). There I saw > Gnome's pilot program and tried it and found it > worked! (Haven't been able to get KPilot to.) On the > down side, there did not seem to be any way already > set up for accessing the CD-ROM or Floppy (Does Gnome > require that they be mounted for each use as in early > version of KDE I tried once in an unsuccessful try at > Linux about 2 years ago?) > > > >
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