Re: [Hampshire] Gnome 3

On 12/04/11 08:39, john lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:46:38 +0100
> Mark Johnson<mark@???> wrote:
>
>
>> On Monday 11 Apr 2011 22:27:18 john lewis wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone played with it yet?
>>>
>> I played with the Fedora-based live CD, I'd recommend you try that as
>> a good way to see how well it works with your set up. There's some
>> nice touches in there, but nothing to tempt me away from KDE :-)
>>
> I am currently downloading the openSuSE live CD so will be able to
> have a look at it myself.
>
> I don't think anything would tempt me to move to KDE :-) All the
> 'comments' I've seen about it being the closest thing to windows for
> linux newbies are enough to suggest I won't like the interface.
>
> I was a very long time user of WindowMaker but lack of development
> has meant that it is now a very old fashioned interface and I'd be
> reluctant to go back to wmaker and give up the 'bells& whistles' that
> gnome provides.
>
>
Not having any high-powered machines, and having jumped to Openbox a few
months ago I can't see that Gnome or KDE have any appeal (all flames are
welcome...)

Owain