El Diablo

Flipping the Linux switch: The GNOME desktop environment (Download Squad)

Dec 25th 2007 2:41PM I've used linux for some 7 years now, starting off with SuSE, which was shipping with KDE. I stuck with SuSE for many years until trying Kubuntu. I eventually tried out SLED10, which ships with a pimped up Gnome, which just sold me on Gnome. I run Ubuntu now, no more KDE, however I find the default Ubuntu desktop vile, and every desktop install I do with Ubuntu, I add gnome-main-menu etc, to get it more inline with SLED10. I noticed a comment about Gnomes nice icons etc, I find generally that the quality of submitted artwork to gnome-look.org etc is inferior to that of kde-look.org, having said that, there are still some outstanding icons etc for Gnome, but I just feel less choice when it comes to quality ones.

As I program also, I must say I love Mono, and recently pumped out a Mono application at the company where I work. One happy dept. boss, works on Linux, Windows and OSX ... yeah yeah, QT could, I know... :-)