newbie question - Desktops

[Doug Oden]

Thank you for your information!

Doug

Jeffrey Watts wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Doug Oden wrote:
>
> > Being new to Linux, could someone tell me the advantages and/or
> > disavantages to Gnome and Kde.
>
> Both work basically the same.
>
> Gnome is part of the GNU project, and is built on libraries that are
> multi-language, multi-plaform, and under the GPL.
>
> KDE is under the GPL (but was improperly so for a long time), and is built
> on libraries that are only C++, are multi-platform, and are (now) under a
> OSS-compatible license.  Its library, QT is the product of a commercial
> software company in Scandinavia.
>
> Personally, I will only use Gnome.  KDE's developers have shown again and
> again that they don't get it philosopy-wise.  QT is also a BAD idea for a
> base GUI toolkit.  Why?  What if you aren't a C++ programmer?  What if you
> want to code in C (_the_ language of Unix), Perl, Scheme, etc?  You're
> outta luck with KDE.  Gnome uses GTK, which is a C library and has
> bindings for most languages.
>
> Now, this is not to say that QT is a bad library -- in fact it is very
> nice.  It's just a bad idea for a base toolkit.
>
> As far as how far they are, KDE has about a 6 month lead on Gnome, but
> usability-wise they are very similar.
>
> J.
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