Two questions in passing...

[sstirling at mediaone.net (Scott Stirling)]

I don't know about "passion," but I think KDE and GNOME about balance out in
terms of pros and cons.  Lately I've been using KDE since Helix GNOME's
panel won't start for me since I upgraded.  I knew there was a risk of
something like that.  So, I've decided to hold out until RedHat 6.2 before
screwing with my configuration any more than I have to.

Anyway, KDE has had a more integrated set of apps and configuration
management since it premiered.  GNOME has since caught up quite a bit, so
the initial imbalance in that department has evened out.  GNOME has actually
tipped the scales quite a bit with apps like gnumeric, abiword, and gnucash
(and gnome-napster, yeah!) coming along so quickly.  My favorite things
about KDE are the look and feel--I guess it's the Qt library?  That's much
tighter and less flakey than GTK.  The other fave thing is the theme
manager--you just drop zip files into the themes directory and the manager
reads them and shows you previews.

I think KFM is a lot better than GMC.  But gnorpm rocks, and I don't think
there's a comparable utility for KDE.

In many ways I find the two desktop environments to be quite similar.  I am
actually comparing the GNOME/Enlightenment combo with KDE.  That's fast and
loose, but the default configuration for most GNOME set-ups anyway.  I've
used sawmill and GNOME and WindowMaker and GNOME and I think Enlightenment
is way better than those guys.  Bottom lin for me is that I prefer
GNOME+Enlightenment, given the choice.  But take away the Enlightenment
part, and I'd pick KDE over sawmill or WindowMaker.  The nice thing is that
you can use all the apps from GNOME or KDE under either environment, so the
apps are almost an independent issue.

CORBA is significant to me because lots of people are using it in the
server-side Java world, which is where I live.  GNOME uses it to coordinate
communication between apps behind the scenes.  I've read criticisms of that.
Not sure if CORBA will remain the protocol behind GNOME in the future or
not.  Why do you ask?

Scott Stirling

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin M. Gleason" <kgleason at ma.ultranet.com>
To: "BLU Discussion Group" <discuss at Blu.Org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:39 PM
Subject: Two questions in passing...


> What is the passion (or perceived passion) with KDE for a desktop? I
> used to work with fvwm with Linux 4.x and 5.x and now work with gnome
> and like it better because of its graphics.
>
> ALSO
>
> Does CORBA hold any special significance to you? (Either as programmer
> or user).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
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