2010/5/27 pankaj biswas <p.biswas at hotmail.co.uk>: > Hi KDE team, > > I need to jump to fedora 13 and i dont know which type should i use? > Can you help me in making the right decision please? > > If i am going to go for KDE why should i go for it? > Please do let me both good things and bad things about it. > > Looking forward to hear a genuine opinion from you. > > Kind Regards > Pankaj Biswas > > > ________________________________ > Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now. > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > I can only offer personal opinions and hearsay, mostly because I don't use Gnome so I only have passing familiarity with it. The general characterization of the two different desktops is that KDE is more like a "Windows" environment and Gnome is more like a "Mac". My own view is that is far too simplistic a description, but you are likely to hear it often enough, and it is based primarily on the main interface of each environment -- KDE has a task bar that is very similar to Windows's, with a "launch" menu in the lower-left and status icons in the lower right (though you can configure this how you want), while Gnome's default is to have a menu bar at the top of the screen (kind of like a Mac) and a status bar at the bottom. KDE has recently undergone a major upgrade and now has lots of modern elements that allow you to customize your desktop. This includes "widgets" (known as "Plasmoids" I believe) that allow you to incorporate a lot of dynamic information into your desktop. The shift cause a lot of angst originally, but many of the early issues have been ironed out and KDE 4.4 **very** stable and usable. KDE also has added a bunch of semantic systems that allow you -- if you use them -- to more efficiently search for information. Gnome is about to undergo a similar jump that will significantly alter its environment. I have no idea whether this change will be as dramatic (and traumatic) for the Gnome world as it was for KDE, but you should be aware that within 6 months to 1 year, Gnome will look significantly different than it does today. My suggestion is to install both and try them out. I won't hurt anything and you would see for yourself which you like. I would suggest giving both desktops a few weeks each to see which feels better. George
