On 12/08/2011 04:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2011 10:58:27 Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 12/08/2011 09:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> And of course, you can always forgive&forget&switch to XFCE, KDE or >>> LXDE. ;-) >> And which one has that Win2000 look/feel that I kind of grew up with :) > If you ask me, try KDE first. AFAIK, XFCE and LXDE are more similar to the old > Gnome2 look&feel. > > While it is completely inappropriate to compare DE's across different OS's, > you > could say that KDE is "XP-like", while for example Gnome2&friends are "MacOSX- > like". But then again, this is completely inappropriate, since all Linux DE's > are quite different from Windows or Mac DE's. And none of KDE, XFCE, LXDE and > Gnome2/3 were ever designed to mimic XP or OSX to begin with, so any > similarity is either a coincidence or an independent design decision about > some feature being useful.
I was under the impression that Gnome's design directive was to follow Windows look and feel, but not be a slave to it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
