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On 12/30/2008 12:36 PM, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: > I once experimented with switching from GNOME as my established desktop= to=20 > KDE. I discovered the various documents I had on my GNOME desktop did = not=20 > transfer over to KDE. Also, various menu items, as I recall, seemed to= =20 > have been either relocated to nonobvious places or just not there. > > The thought then occurred to me - why can't there be a simple mechanism= to=20 > permit, effectively, a seemless transition between the two, apparently = > most popular, window managers? KDE and GNOME are pretty universal amo= ng=20 > Linux distros, and possibly into the BSD and beyond realms. All=20 > configuration and user data should remain untouched. > > This would, or could, be the equivalent of skins, or desktop themes. = You=20 > place a new theme (i.e. new Windows XP vs old "classic") - some basics = > look different, but your environment hasn't fundametally changed. > > =20 I have used KDE for a number of years both on my home workstation, my=20 laptop, and my systems at HP, but since I've been working with RHEL and=20 Ubuntu, I've pretty much switched to GNOME. I think both have some=20 excellent features. One thing I like particularly about GNOME is that it = comes up much faster on login than KDE. In the past, Konqueror served as = both the KDE web browser as well as file manager, and was essentially=20 integrated into the fabric of KDE itself. At one point KDE had the full=20 support of SuSE, but since Novell acquired SuSE, I think that KDE has=20 suffered a bit. I might switch my home system F10 to KDE or a while just = to compare them again. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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