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Re: Desktop look...
by dave on Saturday 09/Feb/2002, @17:15

The reason it's stayed around is because people use it, like it and develop for it. You find kde better, great, use kde, others find gnome better - for them it i s better to use gnome. It might have started because of licencing issues but now it was never meant to be a clone of kde - just a good desktop.

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Re: Desktop look...
by About Ximian on Saturday 09/Feb/2002, @17:58

Let us be realistic. It is obvious that Gnome is the desktop war, in Linux. I predict Gnome will live as a replacement for CDE, since Sun wants to force it on its users. Linux and the BSDs will be dominated by KDE. The Gnome team may as well not bother to support anything other than Solaris.

Gnome has some great applications, but as a desktop environment it is poor, and it cannot keep up with the onslaught of KDE releases.

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Re: Desktop look...
by me on Tuesday 12/Feb/2002, @07:12

It sounds to me that you don't believe anyone actually uses gnome (unless they have a gun pointed at their head). It would be really great to have some real numbers on the proportion of people using each desktop - i know it's quite hard to get statistics like this mainly because (almost) all distributions include both desktops. However most of the people that i have spoken to who have tried ximian gnome after using kde for long periods of time seem very impressed and are enthusiastic about it "better looking and faster than kde". So i just wanted to assure you that some people do actually use and like gnome (and no there isn't a sun/ximian employee behind me forcing me to write this)
I'm not quite sure why you seem to want gnome dead, surely it does you (or kde) no harm.

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