From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 21:03:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14F016A400 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:03:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MBGaskins@co.berkeley.sc.us) Received: from mail.co.berkeley.sc.us (bmserv.co.berkeley.sc.us [204.116.72.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB6A43D45 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:03:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MBGaskins@co.berkeley.sc.us) Received: from mail400.co.berkeley.sc.us (unknown [192.168.182.40]) by mail.co.berkeley.sc.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907A21FE32; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:03:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200604191530.17456.daeg@houston.rr.com> To: David J Brooks MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.5 November 30, 2005 Message-ID: From: MBGaskins@co.berkeley.sc.us Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:03:25 -0400 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on mail400/BCGOV(Release 6.5.2|June 01, 2004) at 04/19/2006 17:03:26, Serialize complete at 04/19/2006 17:03:26 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE + GNOME? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:03:24 -0000 David J Brooks wrote on 04/19/2006 04:30:16 PM: > I have both Kde 3.5.2 and Gnome 2.12 installed. I don't actually use gnome, > but I need several parts of it as dependencies for other packages that I do > run, and having enough drive space to do so, I just keep the whole thing up > to date. Both run without any problems. > > FWIW, I have the opposite opinion from Paul on which is prettier. I think Kde > is much more attractive than the rather spartan Gnome environment. > > David I've got both KDE and Gnome working fine on my Gentoo system at home (I use FreeBSD for server use more than desktop), and they play together just fine. As yet another oddball opinion on the subject, I find KDE to be graphically prettier, but Gnome has a better "flow" to it. It's a bit more subdued (KDE seems to be very "in your face"). Also, the rendered of KDE just seems to mess stuff up more often. Desktop icon labels are cut off in the middle of a word for example, or toolbar icon labels have an "off center" appearance to them. I used KDE almost exclusively since Mandrake 5.1, but I've switched to Gnome as my primary interface as of Gnome 2.10. Mike