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Oh well I guess it's a myth

libervisco — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:18:42 +0100

Oh well I guess it's a myth then, that GNOME is more easily themable.

It's probably true that memory use, as long as it is within normal parameters, is not a real issue if you've got at least more than 300MB RAM. Of course, it's usually 512.

I have 256 at the moment so I'm still a bit low, but I hope to correct that at some point soon..

"Themes are easier to

free-zombie — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:58:44 +0100

"Themes are easier to install" is pretty much a delusion: KDE themes are much closer to GTK+ theme engines, most themes you drag-and-drop are roughly equivalent to KDE colour schemes. This does not hold true for pixmap-based GTK themes like Candido (the pixmap version) and possibly window border themes.
Installing icon themes is just as easy

I also prefer KDE over

reptiler — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:14:26 +0100

I also prefer KDE over GNOME, and there are two big reasons for that.
The first reason is that I'm used to it. My Linux-experience started with Suse 9.2 which shipped KDE 1.1.2. At that time GNOME was, as far as I recall, still pretty unknown. So now I'm using KDE for nearly 8 years now, and I'm perfectly happy with it.
I also can't complain about it being slow or resource-hungry. If remember correctly my system needs around 120MB of RAM right after booting into KDE (around 20-30 when I boot to the shell ).

That's what my memory looks like right now

Quote:

MemTotal: 1033672 kB
MemFree: 41708 kB
Buffers: 24232 kB
Cached: 713540 kB

I'm in KDE, using Konqueror, have Kontact, Korganzier, KWallet and Klipper running, two Konsole-windows of which one is compiling the current EasyLFS.
Well, just around 40MB are free, but as you can see 700MB are used as cache.
If you substract that you get an actual memory-usage of around 260MB, which I think is still pretty good for what I have running right now.

I'm also really interested in KDE4. I was already thinking to try a Beta but then didn't. I tried that on KDE 2 and 3 and never had any major problems.
But I guess I'll be waiting for the final release this time.

Well, back to my reasons for KDE.
The other big reason is that I like to compile software myself. KDE takes a long time, it's some really big packages.
But also GNOME takes quite some time, but it's really annoying to install GNOME since it's millions of little packages with dependancies to other packages which have some more dependancies again. I guess because of that I'll take at least the same time to compile GNOME as it takes to compile KDE, just that it's much more annoying.
For KDE you install KDELibs and after that you can fire up as many terminals as you like and compile all the rest at the same time. You can't do that for GNOME.

And another reason is all the useful software which is shipped with KDE. I really like KMail/Kontact. I like playing my music in Noatun and reading PDFs in KPDF. And I use Kopete as IM. Why?
Because it's all there and it has all I need.

And I really love KStars, which is not as powerful as XEphem, but also has some functions XEphem doesn't have. So, both together, maybe plus Celestia and Stellarium, make up some interesting astro-package.

Yeah I am quite curious

libervisco — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:43:44 +0100

Yeah I am quite curious about KDE4.

The reason why it seems that it is easier to modify GNOME's look is because it is actually easier to install themes. But you're right, this doesn't necessarily mean that those themes are then more customizable once installed.

However, since there are more themes for GNOME than KDE, AFAIK, then maybe it is easier for developers and designers to theme GNOME than KDE.

But maybe in KDE4 this will be fixed too. Anyway, people will hopefully always have a choice between two, even three (counting Xfce) major DE's and choice is good. GNOME will likely, even if later than KDE4 have some innovations and improvements of their own. We'll see..

customization

a thing — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:06:38 +0100

I find KDE a lot easier to customize than GNOME. In KDE, you can change every aspect of its appearence with the exception of the basic widget look and icons (those are limited to what has already been made) in the control panel. But in GNOME, you're limited to what has already been set by the theme author, except for font and icons (which is also limited to what has already been made).

Perhaps in KDE4 you'll be able to edit icons like you can currently edit colors, since it will all be SVG. (Sound exciting? Keep up with KDE4 development at KDE Dot.)

Very nice. I like the blue

libervisco — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:25:29 +0100

Very nice. I like the blue shade you're using.