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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:49:33 -0400 Brendan <[hidden email]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > At one time, KDE was the better desktop system for Linux for technical > > reasons of stability and applications. Today, it appears that GNOME has > > surpassed KDE. I use GNOME (RHEL4) at work and on my laptop (Ubuntu > > 8.04) and KDE4/SuSE 11.0. I always install both KDE and GNOME on my > > desktop so I can switch. I've always preferred KDE for my desktop, but > > I am getting used to GNOME, and it does appear that KDE is starting to > > be more screwed up. What I would like to see is a non-religious, > > objective discussion of various features of GNOME and KDE. > > Obviously, this is just your opinion vs mine, but I don't see how KDE is > starting to be more "Screwed up"? Works great for me. Do you mean the desktop > functionality and embedded apps, like systemsettings (kcontrol in old > parlance) plasma, etc? If you mean other apps, which ones? Any missing > functionality in this transition period is filled by running KDE3 and 4 apps > together. Works nicely. 4.1 is great, and getting better every day. KDE 3.5.0 > even, with k3b, amarok and Konsole ranks right up there with other > indispensable things such as iced tea and sushi. > > Certainly, nobody is pushing you to use the newer KDE 4.x, right? You can > stick with the same ole 3.x and your apps for a year or more and still be > productive as you ever were...
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