Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 11:38:35 -0500 From: Jeffrey Watts <watts@jayhawks.net> Subject: Re: kclug - newbie question - Desktops Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005121023140.8495-100000@violet.jayhawks.net>
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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