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Re: cool
by she on Friday 29/Feb/2008, @17:44

Wait a minute
there isnt much competition available

gnome
and xfce

xfce will forever remain light weight so it will never be a legit competition.

that leaves gnome. So its only kde vs gnome actually. (ede is way too tiny)

And gnome has so many problems, i dont even know where to start:

- The components are harder to compile AND run. When i started kde, it just worked. When i started gnome, i had nautilus problems, gconf problems, libbonobo(and libbonoboui) problems... googling to resolve these errors didnt help. So many errors that i gave up.
- Gnome tries to make the user an idiot. Maybe KDE options are bloated, but at least I GET to choose what i dont want. I think the ideal DE would be one that is super modular, allowing a user to choose how she wants something (and choose to not be able to choose, i.e. like gnome)

But the way gnome forces its users to accept its default choices is an idiot-developer attitude. I hate this attitude.

Gnome devs need to fix these two problems if they ever want me to "convert" to gnome. Kde is a lot better in this regard, big props to the kde devs (and I know not _every_ gnome dev has this attitude, just some gnome devs...)

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