On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 18:20, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have some questions about the Gnome desktop, and would like your feedback. > > I've been using KDE for about a year now, I chose it initially mostly > because of Konqueror, and its' ability to split the window horizontally > and vertically, and save "view profiles" which I find extremely useful. > > Every so often I check out Gnome, but the file manager seems overly > simple for my needs, so I switch back. I get the feeling that there > must be more to Gnome than I can see on the surface... > > So my question is, Why do you use Gnome over other options? What are > its' pros and cons? What do you love about it? 1) GNOME is simple, clean, and usually works "the way I expect", which is the key to comfort with any interface. 2) GNOME is highly configurable in both behavior and appearance. I far prefer the way GNOME handles panels to KDE. 3) GNOME applications can be tightly integrated leading to a more seamless environment. 4) GNOME is very flexible and modular. Personally, I don't like Metacity (the default GNOME window manager), so I replaced it with XFWM4 (from XFCE). I also use Konqueror instead of Nautilus most of the time (of course this requires having a minimal amount of KDE libraries installed). On a related note, since I was so impressed with XFWM4, I decided to give a full-blown XFCE desktop a try. I've found it very lightweight and very easy to get used to. I may switch from GNOME to XFCE for a time, but I'll probably end up switching back to GNOME. I was also a WindowMaker user for a long time, but the clean and simple GNOME interface drew me back. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
