After seeing where KDE4 is heading, I thought it might be the time to give Gnome another attempt. The reason I was in favor of KDE was it was more customizable than Gnome.. I may be wrong, but that was how I felt it. However, with KDE4, it seems heading to the simplicity road like its competitors. Personally, I think it is too simplified.
In addition, as mentioned in my post before, I did not like the new interface and its arrangement.
Anyway, here is my first experience with Gnome. So far, it has been positive. It has been tidied a lot since the last time I was using it. Also, it is more organized now too. Settings for system and preference are well grouped.
The Nautilus seemed to be more refine and mature when compared to Dolphin, the new default file manager in KDE4. It is simple at the front, but if you wish, it can carry more sophisticated tasks too, such as access a network drive without restrictions in Dolphin. The only complaint I have on Nautilus is its lack of privacy options. With Nautilus, every places you had visited, files you had opened and/ or previewed left a trace, i.e. under recently accessed document, accessed placed, and in the .thumbnails folder. That may be a time saver for some, but personally, I dislike this idea. I like the control of privacy.
2 comments:
I think you got it very wrong where KDE 4 is heading. The only reason why the very first version in the completely new series has less settings is because there have been so many changes and new things in technology behind the desktop. When releasing this very first version the developers focused on the foundations behind the desktop and didn't have time to implement all the features from KDE 3.5 that are visible to user. For a release they just provided the basic functionality. If you take a closer look at Plasma and other technologies behind KDE 4 you can see that it enables even more and Plasma especially makes it more flexible to customize the look and layout of the desktop itself. At the same time it also makes it easier for the artist to create all those vector SVG graphics and other stuff that makes the look. Now that the strong foundations are in place the work can begin on more visible changes and adding all the options back.
You may be right, and I am sure the foundations it laid would benefit the future development. However, I am not a developer. I am simply a user, and I just want things to work. To me some of the interface changes are just not my cup of tea. Compared to Gnome, it is more clutter and too bold.
Another thing I found out after moving to Gnome is the international support is much better in Gnome than KDE. Chinese support in KDE is just not quit there yet. With Gnome, things are just right. I am not longer seeing boxes instead of proper character.
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