honoriak Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Wich one you prefer and why? I'm not sure of wich one to choose :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Why does it matter which we think is better? The whole point of choice is so that you can make up your own mind which you prefer. Try them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTR Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 GNOME. Its a complete desktop, not a crappy piece of nothing. And its fast enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volrathxp Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 GNOME. Its a complete desktop, not a crappy piece of nothing. And its fast enough. XFCE is a complete DE as well ;) I like XFCE because it's clean, fast, and it is capable of using plugins to extend it's functionality. I use KDE a lot more, but I might switch over to XFCE for a while... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honoriak Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 do you know where to get xfce icon sets? there's only previews on the site :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volrathxp Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 offhand no... sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 I've been using KDE and FluxBox.. but I'll give XFCE a try too, it looks nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honoriak Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 fluxbox was nice.. very simple. but gtk2 looks good ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRReaL Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 i personally like gnome its clean clear and natural in my opinion, i never got on much with KDE its trying too hard to be windows deskop and those excessive bevels on everything very windows3.11 :D For me its gnome every time its the like the ultimate hybrid of windows and MacOSX :) so i likes it a lot and its not too bloated either which makes it a winner for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volrathxp Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 i personally like gnome its clean clear and natural in my opinion, i never got on much with KDE its trying too hard to be windows deskop and those excessive bevels on everything very windows3.11 :DFor me its gnome every time its the like the ultimate hybrid of windows and MacOSX :) so i likes it a lot and its not too bloated either which makes it a winner for me XFCE is extremely non-bloat. it's slim and it looks nice. :) :p Just posted my XFCE desktop over in the desktop thread. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRReaL Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 might have a look is it as functional as gnome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrA Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Blackbox! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sterling Christensen Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 (edited) XFCE 4 is much faster than Gnome. It has a task bar and a panel, like Gnome. It's skinnable and very configurable. The two things I miss most from Gnome are being able to right-click an app's title in the taskbar and get a menu, and being able to use the volume control buttons on my keyboard. But it doesn't come with a decent text editor. No sound player, and no compression utility. The only real app it comes with is a file manager. It's file manager is nice looking and very functional (even supports samba), but limited to tree-view. Oh, and you can't have icons/folders on the desktop at all, only a background image. Despite these shortcomings, I like it because it's not as minimalistic (read: masochistic) as some of the other less-bloated DEs. Unlike those, it's got most of what I expect from a full-fledged DE like KDE or Gnome - just enough to use comfortably, once you install xmms, and text editor, and whatever else you need. Edited December 12, 2003 by Sterling Christensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volrathxp Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 XFCE 4 is much faster than Gnome. It has a task bar and a panel, like Gnome. It's skinnable and very configurable. The two things I miss most from Gnome are being able to right-click an app's title in the taskbar and get a menu, and being able to use the volume control buttons on my keyboard.But it doesn't come with a decent text editor. No sound player, and no compression utility. The only real app it comes with is a file manager. It's file manager is nice looking and very functional (even supports samba), but limited to tree-view. Oh, and you can't have icons/folders on the desktop at all, only a background image. Despite these shortcomings, I like it because it's not as minimalistic (read: masochistic) as some of the other less-bloated DEs. Unlike those, it's got most of what I expect from a full-fledged DE like KDE or Gnome - just enough to use comfortably, once you install xmms, and text editor, and whatever else you need. and if you already have KDE or Gnome installed, you can run your GTK/QT apps under XFCE4 as well :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 I have to say from a features standpoint Gnome is better. That said, I run XFce4 all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honoriak Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 thanks for your replies guys (Y) offtopic: anyone knows where to get those GANT icons for linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmd3x Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 Despite these shortcomings, I like it because it's not as minimalistic (read: masochistic) as some of the other less-bloated DEs. The minimalistic gui's are indeed different, but not masochistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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