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Frank ess
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:39 am    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   ray wrote: Quote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:22:52 +0000, Lucas Tam wrote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support I would suggest that you try them for yourself. I have always had the feeling that KDE was "better" or "more complete" and that Gnome was "lighter". I tend to use KDE on systems with sufficient horsepower and Gnome on slower equipment. I do, however, use GTK for software development (unless I use X/Motif). XFCE is also worth exploring - IMHO. Whirrr. Click. Click. Click. Nothing personal. You've been obliterated by the Ignore-Repliers-to-Trolls-and-Other-Miscreants and Cross-Posters-With-Negative-IQs Robot. Sorry. -- Robliterator
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Flood of Sins
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:45 am    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Lucas Tam wrote: Quote: Subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome *XFce* http://xfce.org :-) -- Flood of Sins
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Igor Jagec
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   LucasTam@hotmail.com (Lucas Tam) ka¾e: Quote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support Bull Shit. Red Hat has made that system and they deliver their products with GNOME by default. They also have made investments on GNOME project as far as I know, and GNOME official web pages are hosted under Red Hat. I'm in minority with prefering GNOME under KDE, but I use some KDE software (k3b, kppp, ksnapshot). I like Fluxbox and Wmaker also, and xfce4 is also very nice. You can have'em both on your machine and you'll see which one of these best suits your needs. Just try'em both, there is nothing you can loose ;) -- Cheers, ICQ#: 311102226 Igor Jagec igorm5 <monkey> yahoo <DOT> com
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Ralph Miguel Froehlich
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Frank ess wrote: Quote: hiwa wrote: John Bailo <jabailo@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<4LLec.7809$A_4.4451@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>... Lucas Tam wrote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support Did someone tell you about the low cost swamp land in Florida ? Yeah. I was told about the land on the moon, $299 for an acre. Whirrr. Click. Click. Click. Nothing personal. You've been obliterated by the Ignore-Repliers-to-Trolls-and-Other-Miscreants and Cross-Posters-With-Negative-IQs Robot. Sorry. -- Ralph Miguel Froehlich Linux 2.4.21-199-default #1 Fri Mar 12 08:27:41 UTC 2004 7:42pm up 1:39, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.12, 0.10 Registered Linux User 199550
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The Ghost In The Machine
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lucas Tam <LucasTam@hotmail.com> wrote on 12 Apr 2004 23:22:52 -0700 <ce88a04b.0404122222.73eb3885@posting.google.com>: Quote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support This is like mixing apples and giraffes. RPM is a *text* utility and a file type (basically, an archive for installing software); however, graphical managers for RPM do exist -- e.g., gnorpm. I don't know what KDE has for handling RPMs. -- #191, ewill3@earthlink.net It's still legal to go .sigless.
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Simon L
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   The Ghost In The Machine wrote: Quote: In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lucas Tam LucasTam@hotmail.com wrote on 12 Apr 2004 23:22:52 -0700 ce88a04b.0404122222.73eb3885@posting.google.com>: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support This is like mixing apples and giraffes. RPM is a *text* utility and a file type (basically, an archive for installing software); however, graphical managers for RPM do exist -- e.g., gnorpm. I don't know what KDE has for handling RPMs. For the RPMs under KDE, there is kpackage
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Two Ravens
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Lucas Tam wrote: Quote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support Have you investigated this statement in order to establish the veracity of your informant? Secondly, why did you need to know? -- Two Ravens "...hit the squirrel..."
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jealous xmp
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Quote: Subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome *XFce* http://xfce.org Try both KDE and Gnome. Gnome at one time was lighterweight (possibly still is). I have some machines running windowmaker or TWM cause they are too old. I personally wouldn't run KDE 3.x on less than 1 ghz plus 256 meg RAM. Open up mozilla and a few other programs, and suddenly you are out of RAM. It just feels sluggish to me. YMMV. Michael
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mjt
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Lucas Tam wrote: Quote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support ..... troll .. -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over"
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Linønut
Guest	Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.] Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from ray: Quote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:22:52 +0000, Lucas Tam wrote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support I would suggest that you try them for yourself. I have always had the feeling that KDE was "better" or "more complete" and that Gnome was "lighter". I tend to use KDE on systems with sufficient horsepower and Gnome on slower equipment. I do, however, use GTK for software development (unless I use X/Motif). XFCE is also worth exploring - IMHO. I like to load most Gnome stuff, and run it under fluxbox, icewm, or xfce. Currently using xfce a lot. -- Don't let Windows XP nag you anymore! Linux rocks!
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DM
Guest	Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:06 am    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   LucasTam@hotmail.com (Lucas Tam) wrote in message news:<ce88a04b.0404122222.73eb3885@posting.google.com>... Quote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support Plug in a Kodak digicam to either and they will both blow up on your face. Maybe that will keep you out of the photography NG's.
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David Warren
Guest	Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Jubei wrote: Quote: It largely depends on preference. There is a plethora of apps designed for both. Gnome has been around a little longer, KDE seems to have a faster development cycle. More distributions tend to support KDE than Gnome these days, many support both. Its simply a matter of taste. I personally prefer KDE. On 12 Apr 2004 23:22:52 -0700, LucasTam@hotmail.com (Lucas Tam) wrote: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- First of all, KDE was around prior to GNOME. KDE is based on the Qt toolkit, GNOME is based on the GTK toolkit. To keep it short, when KDE started QT was not licensed completely free so the GNOME project started out, to provide a "free" desktop (i.e free speech), since then QT toolkit has been relicensed. Now, to the original question, better rpm support? You mean acting as a package manager front-end? Or do you mean it's easier to find RPM's built of KDE? My understanding of your question is that it handles installing rpm's better (i.e a graphical front-end), which I can not disagree or agree with, 'cause I use the command-line most of the time for that Personally, I use GNOME because I use OpenOffice and FireFox frequently and don't see the need of loading up more graphical libraries (uses RAM) considering they both basically do the same thing. I use the odd KDE application such as Rosegarden4 because I can't find a GTK application that does the same just as well as rosegarden does. GNOME basically just works, it doesn't offer you that many configuration options. Where as KDE you can customize your desktop more, I find I use my computer more with GNOME (I mean use, not just play around with). Dave
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The Onion Man
Guest	Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   Frank ess sighed and said: Quote: hirrr. Click. Click. Click. Nothing personal. You've been obliterated by the Ignore-Repliers-to-Trolls-and-Other-Miscreants and Cross-Posters-With-Negative-IQs Robot. Sorry. Goddamn useless spammer! Blah! -- The Silo between A and C
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The Ghost In The Machine
Guest	Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Which is better KDE or Gnome   In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Simon L <no@email.com> wrote on Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:12:09 -0400 <1081890592.305749@www.vif.com>: Quote: The Ghost In The Machine wrote: In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lucas Tam LucasTam@hotmail.com wrote on 12 Apr 2004 23:22:52 -0700 ce88a04b.0404122222.73eb3885@posting.google.com>: Someone told me KDE has better rpm support This is like mixing apples and giraffes. RPM is a *text* utility and a file type (basically, an archive for installing software); however, graphical managers for RPM do exist -- e.g., gnorpm. I don't know what KDE has for handling RPMs. For the RPMs under KDE, there is kpackage There are times when the Linux naming conventions *do* make sense. :-) -- #191, ewill3@earthlink.net It's still legal to go .sigless.
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