[ale] Slackware to drop Gnome?

[Geoffrey]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Monday 11 October 2004 05:37 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>John Wells wrote:
>>
>>>http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/10/218246&tid=131&tid
>>>=190&tid=8&tid=106
>>>
>>>Funny...I've always been a big Gnome fan.  While KDE is admittedly nice,
>>>I've always felt a little funny using it.  I think a big reason for this
>>>is that GTK is truly free for both non-profit and commercial use, while
>>>Qt is definitely not (and surprisingly overpriced, I might add).
>>>
>>>Anyone care to comment on why they use KDE rather than Gnome?
>>
>>I don't know.  I find it a bit surprising myself.  I would expect the
>>average slack user would more likely be a gnome user then a kde user.
>>Either that or command line. :)
> 
> 
> That doesn't follow for me at all. KDE has made it easy for any user to 
> customize KDE to the nth degree. And most of the customizations that are so 
> easy in KDE are difficult or impossible in Gnome. In fact, Gnome developers 
> have cut off these options as a matter of philosophy, thinking they make 
> Gnome easier to support (although I wouldn't bet on it). And there are many 
> minor improvements that can be introducted into KDE through the use of kparts 
> and DCOP scripts. When the improvement shows its worth, it gets adopted by 
> KDE core. I don't know of an equivalent in Gnome. 
> 
> So, as a Slackware user, I'm supposed to be drawn more to a windowing 
> environment that is more of a black box?

Your examples highlight my point.  That being, my view of the average 
slack user is a minimalist, thus the functionality you speak of in KDE 
is not something they look for.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995