[H-GEN] Gnome, KDE, etc.

[Christopher Biggs]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au>)

Ben Fowler <b1.fowler at student.qut.edu.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> under a Free licence[4].  A bunch of other users decided to act, and
> formed another group to create another user-friendly environment called
> GNOME[5], which is based entirely on Free software (including the GTK+
> widget libraries).  GNOME uses Enlightenment as it's window manager,

GNOME is pretty much window-manager neutral, although some window
managers work better with GNOME than others.   The kind of people
attracted to GNOME are usually also attracted to Enlightenment.

Personally, I prefer to give my system resources to the applications
software (okay, Emacs), and run the lightest WM I can find (wm2[1]).

> although you can use others - that's the beauty of UNIX in general, and X
> in particular.  GNOME is arguably prettier (and more bloated) than KDE,
> but KDE, having such a big headstart on GNOME is a bit more mature and
> stable.  Both environments have many applications written for them too, so
> the lack-of-end-user-application problem is becoming much less of an issue
> nowadays.

I'm going to gratuitously drop names here, from my experience at
Usenix[0] last month:

Both Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) and Miguel de Icaza (creator of
GNOME) envisage that GNOME and KDE will be able to run each others'
components Real Soon, thus avoiding the Free Unix Desktop Schism.

BTW, if you ever get a chance to see Miguel speak, go.  That was the
funniest unix presentation I've ever seen.

(BTW part 2.  I have piccies if anyone wants them put up with the
stallman piccies).

> 
>  "Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant." -- Unknown
> 

Some days you get the elevator... some days you get the shaft.

cjb

[0] My notes are still in transit.  I'll write a conference report
        when they arrive.

[1] wm2 is not sufficiently clueful to work well with Gnome.  For a
        lighter-than-enlightenment GNOME-aware WM, try flwm or icewm.

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