Hehehehe. No fair and saying IceWM or Xfce. C'mon now, we want a blood feud here. :)
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In the rest of the issue, you'll find articles on OpenID, RDFa and Quanta Plus.
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And, James Gray gives us a feel for the state of Linux in the enterprise.
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GNOME
On November 27th, 2007 baillio2 says:
I have been through both, and for some reason I just fell in love with GNOME. I like how it is different than the labored 'Windoze' motif. I enjoy GNOME, but I admit I still use KDE apps on occasion. At first I was a bit miffed at the GNOME philosophy of 'one app for one function'. So I have a few KDE apps that I enjoy using that do multiple functions. However, I'm slowly adapting the GNOME philosophy for my own, and I like it.
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KDE.
On November 12th, 2007 carlie says:
It's just so intuitive. When I'm introducing others to Linux for the first time, they tend to do better with a KDE intro (perhaps because it's more Windoze-like, which I know spurs an entirely other and somewhat-justifiable argument that I'll try to bow out of gracefully now).
Gotta love SuperKaramba's widgets (yes just like gDesklets, I know) as well as Koffice and Konqueror.
My 2 cents. (Hm, wonder if I should convert those to Euros.)
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KDE Works for Me(so far)
On November 12th, 2007 Mike Roberts says:
I tried earlier versions of gnome because someone told me with my Sun Solaris background I should like it better. I didn't and have been happy with KDE ever since. Like Carlie posted, KDE is intuitive. I don't mind the thrill of the chase and my job requires quite a bit of that. I just don't want to chase around for desktop apps or utilities.
However, I was a bit annoyed that when I installed Kubuntu 7.10 last week and KDE installed with dolphin as the default file manager instead of Konqueror. I read many posts justifying dolphin as the default file manager, many of which seemed reasonable. Regardless, I don't like dolphin in its current form. Many posts say it is easy to reset Konqueror to the default file manager. The only thing that worked for me was apt-get remove dolphin. I'm happy again with KDE.
KDE developers, if you are reading, please make it easy to switch between Konqueror and dolphin or others might opt out like I did and never try dolphin.
__________________________Mike Roberts is a bewildered Linux Journal Reader Advisory Panelist.
KDE
On February 29th, 2008 fantastron (not verified) says:
I love KDE. But:
sudo apt-get remove dolphin
I don't like it either. I think it is the "Gnomified" KDE File Manager. We are not the only ones out there. Have a look at http://www.kde-forum.org/forum/55/KDE-4-Brainstorm.html.
KDE
On November 25th, 2007 hwiz says:
KDE is my preferred desktop environment too. I tried GNOME back in Ubuntu Breezy Badger, but changed shortly after. KDE just has more of the features that I like, and is very customizable and intuitive.
By the way, Mike, you should really try Krusader for file manager. It's an orthodox file manager like Norton Commander and Total Commander (Windows) and generally gives you a lot more control than the standard file managers in KDE :).