On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:02, betty wrote:
> ok, well, i've had it with kde and am going back to gnome.  i have 
> experimented with it for a few weeks now (seems like months). for the 
> basic desktop stupid user (/yo/),  it is not as friendly as gnome. also, 
> it has independently crashed about 3 times now.  this last time it just 
> kept making konquerer windows open up. got up to 32 before i was able to 
> shut it down.
> 
> so if you're setting up linux for your mom, give her a break and use 
> gnome ;-)
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Interesting conclusion but I would like to point out that I have noticed
that the various implementations of Gnome & KDE have worked with varying
successes from time to time. We all know that Gnome has had some weak
moments in their ascension to Gnome 2.x as has KDE from 3.0 to 3.1 and
3.2 and even then, the distribution that you use will have a very large
impact on your success with each.

For example, Red Hat has modified both managers to their blue curve
theme and adjust the default applications, menu structure etc.
undoubtedly to the dismay of both Gnome & KDE managers. My guess is that
other distributions of Linux has done the same.

There aren't any absolutes - though I've been using Gnome since I went
RH 9, I previously used KDE and thought many parts of it to be better.
Thus it would appear that your commentary probably better reflects the
distribution and versions - with whatever errata updates applied and
probably not the larger picture.

Craig