Sometime yesterday, Sameer Shinde wrote:
Fart Said........
Pleeeease *do not* use HTML to post your mails :-)
I never use the HTML to post the mails, specially to our lug group. I don't know how it goes with HTML ???
Hotmail defaults to HTML these days, I guess. I've seen their new ugly looking site. Give it up. See if there's an option to disbale HTML somewhere.
What is the difference between GNOME & KDE type display?
Try 'em both out and see for yourself ;-)
I tried both. They are really different, but I want to know the fundamental difference between them. Why they are different? Where they are use differently?
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GNOME is 5 letters and KDE is 3 letters.
There will be a lot of technical and strategic differences. Architecture, development model, target users, etc.
KDE was the only full blown DE once upon a time. But it was based on Qt. Qt is a C++-based (wonderfully designed and maintained) class library for doing GUI apps on *nix, windows, and linux/embedded.
But the Qt toolkit was distributed under a non-Free license. Which means that even KDE was not fully Free. GNUers did not did not like that. So they wanted to develop a truly Free DE for linux. Thus, GNOME.
GNOME is based on Gtk - the Gimp ToolKit. Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Gtk was made for Gimp. GNOME is built on Gtk.
Now Qt is also distributed under a Free license - GNU GPL. So KDE is Free. Now KDE and GNOME are working towards interoperability.
My personal opinion is that GNOME looks better but KDE works better.
Manish J.