From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 4 15:35:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ancmail1.state.ak.us (ancmail1.state.ak.us [146.63.92.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7440E37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us) Received: from dnr.state.ak.us ([146.63.110.115]) by ancmail1.state.ak.us (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GEFG3B00.CZ4; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:35:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3B1C0D49.AE1D2179@dnr.state.ak.us> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 14:35:53 -0800 From: Brian Raynes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben_Calvert@amsinc.com, freebsd newbies Subject: Re: Gnome vs. KDE References: <85256A61.007B4DD6.00@ams-central-gate-5a.amsinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ben_Calvert@amsinc.com wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > >My personal advice, take it or leave it, would be to look at the > >different apps that are built especially for KDE and GNOME and decide > >which system has the most useful ones for you. > > actually, as long as you've got the harddrive space, the applications run just > fine in each other's enviroment. you end up with a lot of extra libs, but gnome > apps run fine in kde, and vice versa. ( i've had a couple of promlems with > cutting/pasting between apps, but not in a while). Yes, that's why I said that in the previous paragraph: "My only conclusion was that if I had the drive space of a newer computer (I don't), I would try to have both installed." He seemed to want to choose between them, though. I guess there is a sizable, mostly silent, group that advocates using both. Perhaps the best choice, if you can handle the space requirements. Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message