Another note on KDE 3.1

[Matt Graham]

Aside from an asthetics point of view, what do you like better about KDE3.1
over Gnome?

Looking at redhat8 with bluecurve, kde and gnome look the same (from an
asthetic configuration pov.)   Does KDE have some other features that I"m
not noticing?

matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Clinton" <clintonj at umkc.edu>
To: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
Cc: "KCLUG (E-mail)" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Another note on KDE 3.1

> Brian Densmore wrote:
> > They finally made Konqueror look like a web browser in browser mode. :))
> > Only the page down keys don't work sometimes. Have to investigate that.
>
> I, too, think that KDE 3.1 is the best thing since sliced bread.
> Although I don't use Konq for my web browser, I use pretty much
> everything else on a consistent basis. KOffice is really nice, too. I
> think the KDE project has got some really great minds behind it and to
> quote "Running Linux":
>
> "Since its inception in October 1996, it has made great progress. This
> is partly due to the choice of a very high-quality GUI toolkit, Qt, as
> well as the consequent choice of using C++ and its object-oriented
> features for the implementation."
>
> I think this is just a case of good design from the ground up. I tried
> the 2.x series and I wasn't impressed, at the time. (Possibly because of
> a extra slow GCC G++ 2.9.x compiler.) But now, every thing seems to have
> reached a polished state and their good planning has finally payed off.
>
> I used Gnome 2 up until about three months ago and loved it, as well. I
> have a lot of respect for the Gnome people but -- for me -- KDE 3.1 is
> da' bomb.
>
> --
> Jason Clinton
> I don't believe in witty sigs.
>
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