[ale] Slackware to drop Gnome?

[Robert Heaven]

The one reason that I don't like KDE is: Everything has a "K" in it.

KDE has always seemed a little too homophobic for my taste, which is why
I've always been more partial to GNOME. Well, that and I just don't like
K(rap)Mail.

I'm hoping Novell will exert enough influence to bring things a little
closer together. The only thing Red Hat ever did was push things further
apart.

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:40, Geoffrey wrote:

> Jim Philips wrote:
> 
> > Well, people come to Slackware for different reasons. I don't want
> > the distro to get in the way of my choices. Fedora and RedHat are
> > built out with Gnome in mind. So much so, that there is a whole
> > project on Sourceforge to provide "pure" KDE in rpm format for people
> > who don't want the mangled version from RedHat. You can take Slack
> > wherever you want to go with it and it won't get in your way. Even if
> > Patrick leaves Gnome out of the next release, Slack users will still
> > have Dropline Gnome. But I will never like the idea of somebody
> > shutting down customization options for me and that is what Gnome 
> > does. When people say they don't like the "look" of KDE, I'm puzzled.
> > Because you can make it look any way you want to. It's Gnome that
> > makes that tricky.
> 
> Well, it may be that I've been using gnome so long and don't spend the 
> time to learn kde.  I don't like the 'forever' splash startup it has.  I 
> know gnome has the same now, but I don't use the whole gnome, just the 
> parts I want.  That may be what I like about it, then again, maybe you 
> can do that with kde, I don't know.
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