Re: Gnome or KDE?

["Paul Cooper" <pgc ucecom com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 03:12, Chris Bailey wrote:
> I'm looking for information (biased or not) comparing the latest versions of
> Ximian Gnome and KDE on Linux (I use RedHat 7.2 in case that matters).  I am
> a software developer, and my primary use will be for my work environment.
> My daily tools include Visual SlickEdit (editor), Mozilla, occasionally
> Opera, some minor use of The Gimp, and lots of command line development and
> related tools (e.g. make, ant, compilers, Apache, PostgreSQL and MySQL,
> etc.), sometimes GUI frontends to databases (rarely, but handy at times).
> 
> Taking the above into account, here are some things I'm looking for, or have
> noticed.  I should preface all this with the fact that I've been using
> Ximian Gnome (with Sawfish) for about the last year, and have never used
> KDE.  I do not want to start yet another Gnome vs. KDE war (I know that will
> be quite difficult in such a discussion), but simply gather info to help me
> compare the two for my needs.  I hear it is quite difficult these days to
> successfully switch between the latest versions of the two, otherwise I'd
> just have both and try each for a while (please let me know if this is
> incorrect).  I unfortunately only have one Linux box right now, so can't

I must have missed something - why can't you switch between the two, or
at the very least try out apps like konqueror in gnome or evolution in
kde?