Re: Gnome vs KDE

From: Douglas Furlong (douglas.furlong_at_firebox.com)
Date: 07/29/04

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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:32:39 +0100

    On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 07:29 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
    > Jorge Cecílio wrote:
    > > Hi all,
    > >
    > > I use FC2 and would like to know what desktop shell should I use (Gnome,
    > > KDE, other) and why.
    > > (My system should connect to others FC2 and windows (XP home) (with samba)).
    > >
    > > What about File Managers? Should depend usage on what desktop shell I use?
    > > The ones I tried are Nautilus and Konqueror...
    > > (Once again, these are mainly used for local but also remote (smb://) access
    > > and program execution)
    > >
    > >
    > > Thanks in advance,
    > > JC
    > >
    > >
    >
    > With my brief encounter trying to access windows shares on a LAN. I
    > found konqueror better than nautilus with connecting to the windows LAN.
    >
    > Nautilus asked for a password for every directory that I changed to.
    > Konqueror only asked for the password once and was able to dive into
    > subdirectories.
    >
    > I prefer GNOME as a desktop. I think the choice is a matter of which
    > desktop you feel meets your needs. KDE works decent also.
    >
    > Jim
    In Gnome 2.6, there is a Nautilus Keyring type doohicky that allows you
    to save username/password pairs for specific servers/directories, so
    that it does not constantly hound you for the information. 

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Douglas Furlong
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