2010/5/27 pankaj biswas <p.biswas(a)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
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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