KDE (was RE: [geeks] IRC)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 18 Jun 2001 07:02:46 -0500, Chad A. Chance wrote:
> I had been useing AfterStep since Solaris 8 came out while at the same time
> trying to get GNOME to work, but GNOME just seems very unstable and EXTREMLY
> bloated. I've been giving KDE a shot for the past 2 months or so and I'm
> really starting to enjoy it. It's VERY stable, not as bloated as GNOME,
> provides quite a bit of functionality, and best of all, it's not CDE ;)
> I'm still not sure if I'm going to stick with KDE, but for right now it is a
> nice change.

Well, I take offense to the bloated part, but the unstable part is
pretty much true.  90% of the GNOME development for 1.4 was done on
Linux, and without the benefit of Solaris, or the tools it offers.  This
is has already started to change, and some heavy development is going on
towards the next release.  Remember, that's a preview release for
Solaris, it hasn't been through the full suite of tests and development
that things like CDE have.  I run GNOME full time on my Linux/x86
machines, and it's rock solid stable, and plenty fast (2.4.x as a kernel
helps too).  
Can you explain the bloat a little, other than installation being a
total bitch?
	Greg