[LUNI] KDE vs. GNOME

[Steve Litt]

I just downloaded and installed FluxBox. It passes the Umenu test, in that I 
can assign an arbitrary key combination to an arbitrary command. So to enable 
Umenu as the start menu, I put the following in $HOME/.fluxbox/keys:

Control 9 :ExecCommand rxvt -e "mm_startmenu"

I see a couple things I don't like about FluxBox:

* The tab attached to each window consumes more space than would a legitimate 
taskbar. I couldn't find a way to get rid of these tabs.

* Without a taskbar, it's time consuming to switch from one app to another. 
What's the secret for fast, accurate switches?.

SteveT

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 10:33 am, Jim Harvey wrote:
> I converted to Fluxbox this week, on both my laptop and my mainframe.  Got
> tired of the approx. 1 minute for Gnome or KDE to load.  Fluxbox comes up
> in less than 3 seconds. The menus have everything I need.
>
> lists at redboy.cx wrote:
> > I'll cast another vote for "Try both, but I personally use neither." I'm
> > a fluxbox fan - http://fluxbox.sf.net
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:32:10 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > Poorav Chaudhari <pooravc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I recently installed RH 8.0 on my machine and now want to sink my teeth
> >> into linux. But before i start i would like your opinion on which
> >> desktop should i go with, KDE or gnome? I hope to get one sided answer
> >> 'cuz i don't really want to try out both, although i have a feeling that
> >> there is a fair distribution of both the desktops. If it helps I am a
> >> hardcore windows user, and want to completely quit using it. So i will
> >> use linux for everything, from developing to listening to music,
> >> watching dvds. to surfing... you get the picture.
> >>
> >>thanks and looking forward to your suggestions/opinions.
> >
> >Poorav Chaudhari