ral Posted November 24, 2002 Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 Use ML8.2 with KDE for 5 months. Swith to ML9 and KDE after that. Than used RH8 with Bluecurve Gnome. Upgraded my spare PC so I can run bot RH8 and ML9 on decent machines (two Linux distros running side by side... must be what heaven is like :) ). Anyway, I decided to try ML9 with Gnome. So this is what it looks like. All I can say if the RedHat did a good job with their Gnome desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 24, 2002 Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 I've seen screenshots.....what's the diff? Gnome is gnome. I do understand the font issue but that can be fixed. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hacke...r/msg00061.html http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...light=freecurve http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...1206&highlight= http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...1&highlight=xft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted November 24, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 Basically, Bluecurve Gnome looks like KDE with Nautilus as the file manager. Mandrake Gnome, with the menu bar and task bar side by side. With ML Gnome, its a top and bottom affair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 24, 2002 Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 Create them. Delete the bottom>create a new bottom>delete the top>customize the bottom. Gnome is Gnome. Are you saying rh has features in gnome that ML doesn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted November 24, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2002 No, actually, I think RH cuts down on some features and changes the look all together --- less configurability but a nice clean look. Actually, its hard to tell the RH KDE and Gnome desktops apart. As for configuration. Yep spent the past hour or so configuring ML9 Gnome to look like ML9 KDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 Geramik has some success to make KDE and Gnome apps look alike. Now the only thing remains is the font. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted November 25, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 Well, I have been configuring and using Gnome (ML9 default) for a few hours now and it now loks pretty much like my ML9 KDE desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 25, 2002 Report Share Posted November 25, 2002 If you like KDE use KDE if you like Gnome use Gnome If you like blackbox use it etc etc I don't see the point in changing a wm to look and behave like another, you might as well use the one that you were trying to get it to look like. That said you can change the look of your wm however you want just don't expect that i will think your desktop looks the best, because mine does. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted November 26, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 Actually, I am kinda emabarrrased about making this post. When I first used KDE on ML8.2, I thought, hey its like Windows... Than I tried Gnome on RH8 and said hey its like Windows. Now I am using Gnome on on ML9 and modified it to look like KDE...hhhmmm something wrong here. Anyway, I spent about three hours last night using the default Gnome again...mostly out of curiusity about why they would made a desktop look like that...and well...okay, its pretty easy to use ad works well. All the essential buttons are found on top...and actually when I get used to it, it may be better than a Windows like desktop... Sorry, I guess after years of Windows, I still expect everything to look like it (which is stupid I know). What can I say, I am still a half cooked Linux user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 The reason I don't use gnome2 in mandrake is simple, the desktop reminds me of old macOS and I LOATHE macOS (not OSX, but that's another story). Besides I don't care about where to put the startmenu, but don't decrease my desktop space further by using two panels instead of one. KDE has better eye candy in any case :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 So, you don't use gnome2 because you won't spend 10 min. deleting and creating the bar you want? How much time do you spend customizing kicker? Very weak excuse IMO. You don't have to have both top and bottom. :wink: KDE has better eye candy in any case "Better" is a matter of taste, but kde definately has more :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 I actually tried to customize the panels in gnome2, but have no idea how.. I can delete the bottom panel (which is basically just a place to put the taskbar), but I don't know how to move the top panel (the start menu,etc) to the bottom (or at least not as intuitive as kde which is just drag and drop). I tried looking into the gnome control center and nothing about that.. after a few hours of searching and doing a google lookup.. I gave up. Why do I try to customize the gnome desktop when I have a perfectly nice desktop in my kde3 anyway. I am actually doing the gnome2 thing for a friend who used to be a gnome fan (he worked at Sun, so he better be). I know that he gave up also and use ICEWM as his default desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 I actually tried to customize the panels in gnome2, but have no idea how.. I can delete the bottom panel (which is basically just a place to put the taskbar), but I don't know how to move the top panel (the start menu,etc) to the bottom (or at least not as intuitive as kde which is just drag and drop). I tried looking into the gnome control center and nothing about that.. after a few hours of searching and doing a google lookup.. I gave up. Why do I try to customize the gnome desktop when I have a perfectly nice desktop in my kde3 anyway. I am actually doing the gnome2 thing for a friend who used to be a gnome fan (he worked at Sun, so he better be). I know that he gave up also and use ICEWM as his default desktop. yes i don't use gnome myself but it's great that it's there. I may use it latter at some point, there are some good applications written in gnome(not just gtk) that i like too use in kde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 The beauty of Gnome to me is how customiseable it is. If you want it to like like MacOS then it can, if you want it to look like Windows, no problem. Play around with it a bit and get it looking however you please. I must agree with johnnyv though, if you can't get Gnome to look like KDE, why not use KDE? Put the salt in the salt shaker, ya know? I like Gnome because it isn't as user friendly (if you know what I mean) as KDE and Enlightenment, etc. I hate little help boxes popping up all over the place. Blackbox is also cool for it's simplicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 26, 2002 Report Share Posted November 26, 2002 I don't know how to move the top panelYou can't. It can only be customized or deleted.or at least not as intuitive as kde which is just drag and dropyou can drag and drop in the gnome panel as well :wink: The start menu ect...is in the rt click menu to add to the new bottom panel, edge panel, float panel, many panels, any size, and almost as easy as kde. On a side note: I know it's a matter of taste, but what's the point of increasing the height of a bar, to just decrease the width, if you can't even get a rt click menu on the kde desktop? To look like osx? I have yet to see a shot that looks even remotely like the real thing in linux. I've seen dx themes that look a lot like osx, but that's for windows. The popups in Enlightenment can be turned off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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