Re: GNOME Desktop.

[bratsche dfw net]

This is very strange. I've installed KDE 1.0 in the past and it seemed
extremely usable to me. It was not nearly as slow as either NT or OS/2,
although I didn't take the time to mess around with every feature of it
either.
What little I do know regarding GNOME vs. KDE in speed in regarding the
CORBA programs. KDE uses a program called mico, which is what GNOME used
for awhile before it was decided that it would potentially speed things up
by writing a C-based ORB, and hence sprung ORBit.

Regardless of that, I still maintain my claim that KDE is not unusably
slow. You may have installed it incorrectly, or you may not have a very
high- (or even middle-) end machine. I use a 233mhz K6 with 64 megs of
memory, which seems to be fairly middle-of-the-road these days.

Read www.gnome.org to see what window managers currently support GNOME. I
know that Enlightenment is the only one that is completely up-to-date with
GNOME, and icewm and WindowMaker are also attempting to achieve
GNOME-compliance.

Best regards,
  Cody


On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Rok Papez wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> 
> I have tried installing the KDE; installation was easy 
> (including recompile); but it is SLOW. Slower than 
> Windows NT/98 and much slower than OS/2 PM/WPS <- this 
> thing has SOM behind so I'm clueless what they did to 
> the desktop to make it THAT slow. I think KDE Beta2 was
> faster then KDE 1.0. :((.
> 
> Whatever you guys do to GNOME. Make it *usable*, *fast*
> and after all that, *good looking*.
> 
> Then I tried installing GNOME (with recompile) and
> it failed during compilation (RH5.2). Not to mention
> the bad installation documentation :), where error
> messages were giving me the clues what to do next
> (No I did not see www.gnome.org as a friend brought
> me the latest GNOME on a ZIP).
> 
> So I ended up installing the binaries that were on my
> RH5.2 cd. GNOME now runs without problems.
> The question is:
> KDE has its own desktop (window manager); what window
> manager is most GNOME aware. I'd like to have a KDE
> desktop a la GNOME ;-))).  (I liked KDE desktop, just 
> if it was faster :().
> 
> Enlightment?
> AfterStep?
> 
> 
> 
> best regards,
> Rok Papez.
> 
> Student at Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
> University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
> 
> 
> 
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