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Re: THE single most impressive new thing from aKad
by Otis Wildflower on Sunday 05/Sep/2004, @09:11

<em>on the other hand, gnome is beating kde on the look and feel issue and the intergration issue, also, gnome is using khtml.

so in the two years I have been using linux, the two desktop environments have changed their positions completely. If I was a newbie again, I would pick gnome. wierd.</em>

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If anything, KDE remains more consistent in the look and feel game IMHO, at least as far as reusability (KParts) and integration (DCOP). OpenOffice is still too different from Mozilla which is too different from XMMS. Each GNOME app can be themed differently, while with KDE you pick one great theme (Baghira in my case) and everything renders all the widgets and chrome for you instead of trying to find all the disparate themes in all the disparate apps. Plus, thanks to GTK-QT, my GNOME2 apps that behave properly look pretty good too, particularly Firefox and GIMP2. However, you still have laggards like OOo that are _ugly_, though I haven't source-built it in awhile.

Kopete, Apollon, Juk are individually damn fine apps, but with integration into KDE they're synergistically superior. Also, KDE is stealing some really great ideas from OS X (KWallet, KAddressBook), so when the Xorg lower-level stuff improves to the OS X display quality level, KDE is closest IMHO to approaching OS X in usability.

OTOH, KOffice still freezes in 100% cpu when I try to read in a Word2k file.

I continue to stick with KDE, even with some of the political annoyances.

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