Re: GNOME 1.2

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

whoa, i am confused. i had thought that the panel was provided by Gnome,
and not KDE?
i thought that gnome was just a set of user operability options that ran
on top of a compliant window manager?

no?

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> bob davenport said:
> > Can someone tell me if there is an advantage to using GNOME versus KDE?
> 
> In my personal opinion, no, at least not yet.  KDE is by far more
> stable than GNOME.  GNOME is shaping up quite nicely, and it does have
> some nice features though.
> 
> Personally, I'm not very interested in GNOME as a desktop...  (I run
> WindowMaker with the KDE panel, as I'm sure you've all seen by now...)
> Some of the GNOME applications are *very* nice though.  I use dia on a
> semi-regular basis, plus Helix GNOME includes the latest beta of GIMP
> (which has a lot of features not present in 1.0.x), and the latest
> versions of things like xmms, grip, abiword, and various other things.
> 
> So the short answer is just ignore it if you don't *know* you need it.
> 
> (Oh, it looks like the Mandrake rpms are mirrored now.  LinuxPPC is in
> progress...  It looks like SuSE will be next.)
> 
> Steve
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