From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 10:41: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9ED14D9D for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:40:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip159.r11.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.174.159]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06191 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:40:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3883615B.AA6AFA27@nwlink.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:37:15 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which X-window to choose? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Oren Sarig wrote: > > >WindowMaker was nice, but the reason I dropped it (drums, please).... > >I want that bar on the bottom I can choose what window I want from. > >Seriously, when I have 10 windows open, it's a real pain (you know > >where) finding the one you need without that bar. When the selection > >came between KDE and GNOME, I picked GNOME because (drums again)... > >GTK looks nicer than QT. Seriously, GNOME is a whole lot more stable > >now, and offers about the same features as KDE, so there is no big > >difference. > > Well, that was a big issue with me... stability... Gnome just drove me > nuts sometimes, even on Linux, where it is supposedly more stable. So you > say it is more stable now? How about configuring, and useful tools? It > seems to me KDE is ahead on this one. I have to agree about Gnome's stability. I like Gnome's looks, but it's a bit too ...thrown together. Kde is coherent and stable as a rock on FreeBSD in my experience. One thing is, how come Kde only comes with a small handful of themes when built using the ports? When I was running linux mandrake, I had no fewer than 20 themes that came with Kde. The same is true of enlightenment under FreeBSD. There isn't even the "clean" theme that goes so well with Gnome. This is in fact a big reason I won't use Gnome. -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message