Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:04:52 -0800 From: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Regarding Promoting KDE - Wait, why not GNUstep? Message-ID: <36B69584.F80FA433@mediaone.net>
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Okay, so KDE might be easy to use for newbies coming from Window 95/98/NT because it sort of looks alike, but why add an enviroment that slows down the system? I used to use KDE as my main window manager and enviromnet, but I have since then switched to Window Maker which seems to be a nice setup because of it's small memory usage and it's slick looks. GNUstep, which uses Window Maker as it's defualt window manager, seems to be making some advancement adding Gnome and KDE support (with Window Maker), and creating it's own OpenStep-like API. GNUstep doesn't use third party (at least not that I know of) software in order to create it's enviroment. The NextStep look is really nice can clean and now with Max OS X coming out soon, it might get very popular with the Mac crowd. I guess all GNUstep needs is a killer file manager, a suite of applications like KDE, methods of making the rest of X more Next-like, and other tid bits to make it more like a common desktop GUI. KDE is probably alot farther ahead than the GNUstep team, but with more help maybe it will move forward faster. Any ideas? Joey -- =============================================== Joseph Garcia gummibear@mediaone.net Downey, CA =============================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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