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GNOME was never too popular among "true hackers" because compared to KDE, it is seen as less flexible, less configurable and hence more "nannying". But to me, I
by kleiba 2y ago
GNOME was never too popular among "true hackers" because compared to KDE, it is seen as less flexible, less configurable and hence more "nannying". But to me, I always found KDE too cluttered and all over the place.
Now, I just pulled up the KDE home page and was presently surprised by the very sleak looking screenshots of a KDE desktop. Looks much more polished compared to the KDE of 20 years ago.
Congratulations and Happy Birthday, KDE!
- anthk 2y agoGnome 1.4 with Sawfish it was, even more than KWM thanks to Lisp. Then RedHat/Helix dumbed it down with 2.2 and beyond and with the 3/4.x releases we are still with a hog mixing C, Rust and Javascript. If it only used Guile instead of JS...
- kleiba 2y agoYou're talking development, but I'm thinking purely from an end-user perspective.
- anthk 2y agoGnome 1.4's panels had far more settings and applets that current Gnome ones. Nautilus wasn't crippled. Also, on XFCE3, the GTK version was even faster than Gnome 2.x and XFFM wasn't as bad as it looked.
- stuaxo 2y agoThat was fun, you could make any window have it's own theme.
- mkesper 2y agoHell, having to install an extension to disable the corner actions killed my desire to use Gnome forever! In KDE things like this are plainly available in Settings, as it should be.
- wink 2y agoI really disliked old KDE (1-3?) but since Plasma I'm a completely happy user, although I still use i3/sway.