I too recently dl'ed ximian and went with it over kde. Its a bit quicker IMHO. I could never get kde apps to comile on my system so I was laways using gnome apps (gcdmaster, sylpheed, pan, gcombust, zapping....). Nautilius could be quicker, I miss konqueror (i know i could run in gnome) and kpackage, but ill get over. BUT (and this is the take home message) I get to chose, not some geek in washington On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Peter Rymshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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