Comments on: What’s wrong with KDE? http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/whats-wrong-with-kde/ Just a social techie Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:39:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Danijel Orsolic http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/whats-wrong-with-kde/#comment-2944 Danijel Orsolic Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:58:01 +0000 http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/whats-wrong-with-kde/#comment-2944 That's interesting... I also always thought KDE looked a bit clunky, no matter how much you try to make it look smooth and sexy like GNOME. Maybe GNOME interface actually is a bit more natural to most people. You have three main menus and then some quick icon launchers. The menus directly reflect their actual context. Applications for applications and programs, places for places in the system and system for configuring the system itself. It's really spot on. Just goes to show people should show respect to both KDE and GNOME. While KDE may be more configurable and hence feel more powerful to those who are more experienced, GNOME has that natural appeal, simplicity and smoothness that makes artists and designers usually love it - people who are more likely to care about their desktop not just functioning great, but looking great too. :) Cheers That’s interesting… I also always thought KDE looked a bit clunky, no matter how much you try to make it look smooth and sexy like GNOME. Maybe GNOME interface actually is a bit more natural to most people. You have three main menus and then some quick icon launchers. The menus directly reflect their actual context. Applications for applications and programs, places for places in the system and system for configuring the system itself. It’s really spot on.

Just goes to show people should show respect to both KDE and GNOME. While KDE may be more configurable and hence feel more powerful to those who are more experienced, GNOME has that natural appeal, simplicity and smoothness that makes artists and designers usually love it - people who are more likely to care about their desktop not just functioning great, but looking great too. :)

Cheers

]]> By: Taco Buitenhuis http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/whats-wrong-with-kde/#comment-2919 Taco Buitenhuis Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:03:35 +0000 http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/whats-wrong-with-kde/#comment-2919 I suspect windows may be just as hard to use as KDE, only it is much easier to find someone to answer questions about it. Another thing that may make KDE "difficult" is that it is visually overwhelming. Draw exactly the same form with a GTK theme and with a KDE theme, and somehow the GTK version will almost always look more clean (I guess there must be clean KDE themes out there too, but I don't see them often). Add that most KDE interfaces have much more icons and menus and whatnot, and you see why GNOME is "easy". I suspect windows may be just as hard to use as KDE, only it is much easier to find someone to answer questions about it.

Another thing that may make KDE “difficult” is that it is visually overwhelming. Draw exactly the same form with a GTK theme and with a KDE theme, and somehow the GTK version will almost always look more clean (I guess there must be clean KDE themes out there too, but I don’t see them often). Add that most KDE interfaces have much more icons and menus and whatnot, and you see why GNOME is “easy”.

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