[KLUG Members] KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 comparison

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I found this interesting web site comparing KDE and GNOME
>www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=741892).  I was thinking of updating my GNOME
> to 2.2.  Has anyone done this yet?

I have run RedHat Pheobe (GNOME2.2)  which works fine.  I didn't get to test any
of the wild and crazy features (CD burning in the file manager, etc..) but it
was fast and stable.  I've back ported a couple of GNOME2.2-esque programs to
RH8.0 and they work wonderfully (most notably the Print Manager for cancelling
jobs, etc..)

As to the article...

People who know even less than *ME* (wow!) shouldn't be allowed to write articles.

"I reinstalled package after package"

Gee, and his control center, etc... were filled with duplicate icons... Huh?

"GNOME is a conglomeration of Nautilus, Bonobo, Gconf, GTK and more,"

It isn't a "conglomeration" it is a stack, and isn't apt supposed to take care
of this for you?  Sounds like a distribution problem.  RedHat 8.1's beta works
just fine.

"One of the worst things about Windows is that various system processes have so
many convoluted interdependencies that it is difficult — if not impossible — to
track down the source of any given problem."

The guy had better just quit using computers.  It is called "integration",  and
NO WAY do I want to go back to the cobbled together XFCE of two - three years
ago.  It was good then, but sheeesh, some things were alot of work, things that
just happen automatically now.  And despite moronic whining about "bloat" doing
things this way often uses LESS memory than loaded up every applications
individual implementation of every feature.

"is almost as convoluted as the Windows registry, and therefore it's almost as
difficult to manage"

And how do you intend to *manage* something without a central repository of
configuration information?  And, from what I've read, KDE has its own
equivalent.  But I don't use KDE so I could be wrong.

All in all I think the article looks like about 50% whining and 50% "I prefer".
 Not a whole lot of substance here.