On Tue, 2 May 2000, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
I take your point about running Gnome apps under KDE. Some of
<pedant> GIMP is not a GNOME application. It does not require it to run. </pendant>
them just do not work. I like the GUI theat KDE provides but I hate how long it takes to load - 60 secs on my P233 laptop. Gnome comes up in less than a third of that and Icewm in no time at all.
October GNOME is stable in comparison to almost any past version, but GNOME-1.1 really does shine. I have October GNOME (no debs of 1.1 can be found :() with sawmill, works nice and quickly.
KDE 'feels' more complete, but I think it's because KDE comes bundled with lots of utilities like configuration apps and monitors which GNOME doesn't. You can for example find guiTAR for GNOME via the gnome website, but it probably isn't bundled.
James.
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