Re: Did GNOME go 1.0 too early?

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:56:28 Christian Schaller wrote:

> > Yes, my impression from using 0.99.8 was that Gnome lacks behind KDE ina a
> > big way. But isn't that natural? KDE has been in a stable 1.0 release for
> > a year now and they've had time to add features now that they are done
> > with the low level stuff.
> 
> I to used KDE, but switched to GNOME shortly after the KDE 1.0 release, I
> haven't yet gotten around to uppgrading to 1.0,
> but I am currently using 0.99.8, my impression is that the desktop environment
> in itself has surpassed KDE, but there are still fewer apps included as
> standard than there is in KDE. (Although I think there are more apps available
> using GTK totaly.) I would appreciate hearing in what areas you feel GNOME is
> still behind?

I would say that Gnome is ahead of KDE 1.0 in terms of usability, but behind it in terms
of sheer number of applications/features.  KDE 1.1 and Gnome 1.0 are actually remarkably
close, with the biggest KDE advantages being KFM and ease of installation.

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