[ale] KDE/Gnome show of hands?

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> I see various post recommending this or that environment, but I've not
> seen anyone explaining why.
> 
> So, if you have a second today, could you state:
> 
> 1. Which do you use...KDE/Gnome/Other?

KDE if you're used to having your hand held when you use a computer. 
It's pretty, but it's bloody slow.  When booting into KDE, you can go 
for coffee, in comparison to the same machine booting into, say XP.

I use gnome, but just limited parts of it.  I rely mostly on 
enlightenment because I like it's tuneability, functionality and eye candy.

I use gnome for the gnome-panels, so I have some decent lauchers. 
Enlightenment used to have some pretty cool launchers, but seem to have 
fallen out of favor, thus don't exist any longer (to my knowledge).

I also use xdaliclock for a neat color cycling, morphing, transparent 
clock.  I use gkrellm for system/network monitoring, another reason I 
don't use a lot of stuff on a gnome panel, outside of launchers.  I used 
to use many of the E epplets, but gkrellm duplicates much of that 
functionality, thus I don't use them any longer.  I still use the 
E-Slides.epplet to switch my desktop background.  E has some really cool 
epplets though, like the NetFlame epplet that displays network activity 
in a growing flame, same kind of thing for cpu usage.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, I have a frankenstein approach to my 
desktop.  I use bits and pieces of what I like from various tools.

KDE reminds me too much of a windows environment.  It takes forever to 
boot and if you fire up a kde app from a non-kde environment, they too 
take forever to load.

I liked gnome better when it worked with enlightenment.  If I could find 
a decent launcher for e, I'd dump gnome.  There is a laucher called 
FancyLauncher which will work with e, but it's pretty rough and I've not 
taken the time to configure it.

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