A common complaint about GNOME is that it has a certain fetish for icons. Menu entries, buttons - everything has an icon attached to it which often wastes space needlessly by making buttons larger than they need to be, as well as menus wider than they need to be. The good news (for me, at least) is that the next GNOME release will have all these icons removed.
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Member since:2006-07-16
No concrete facts, however, I include myself and Linux Torvalds himself among those who switched to Gnome when KDE 4 became the default. I also include several of my Linux using buddies. A lot of people didn't like KDE 4 and saying so is not merely trolling against your precious KDE. I was a long time KDE user and only switched to Gnome a couple years ago when KDE 4 was so buggy it was unusable and I was tired of 3.5.x. I am aware that KDE 4.3 is a vast improvement and I've been anxiously awaiting it to go Gold before trying it out myself. Who knows; when Gnome 3.0 hits I may go scrambling back to KDE as may hordes of other Gnome users.
Member since:2005-09-10
Well, there might be some truth to his statement - actually I tried GNOME when KDE 4.0 came out. Was bored with 3.5.x, wanted to try out something new, and I knew that 4.0 wasn't ready. On the other hand, I never intended to switch, I always thought about it as a temporary experiment. Managed to stay with GNOME for a couple of months. Some parts were painful, others were OK, nothing really outstanding though. Switched back around KDE 4.1.3 (or 2?) which was good enough for me (but still lacked feature parity with 3.5.x).
The 4.2.x series has some features 3.5.x lacks, and still some features missing - I call it an even, but it IS DIFFERENT and refreshing in many respects. It's the first time I don't feel the need to change the default theme (or the defaults in general). For years KDE was bashed (more or less rightfully) for bad defaults (themes/settings), but finally they got it right. I used 4 distroes in the past year (Kubuntu/openSuse/Mandriva/Fedora) - and I always ended up switching back to oxygen. Exception is sculpture, a nice and very configurable/scalable theme. And now they did it again with AIR (kde 4.3) - beatifully done again...
One feature still lacking in 4.3 - good printing options. That's one part that GNOME does better at the moment. Quite an irony given its history (remember Linus bashing GNOME for their braindead decisions regarding the printing dialogue?). As I understand, however, the lack of features wasn't a decision they made. 4.x relies on QT for printing, which lack many of the features kde 3.5.x had. They didn't have the manpower to write a new printing framework, and QT development opened up only recently, after they moved to GIT. Work has just started to implement everything we may need directly into QT.
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2005-07-06
Have you any facts to confirm this or are you just trolling against KDE?
PS: KDE 4.3 absolutely rocks.