[ale] Slackware to drop Gnome?

[Christopher R. Curzio]

> KDE has always seemed a little too homophobic for my taste, which is why
> I've always been more partial to GNOME.

Wait... what?

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Thus Spake Robert Heaven <robertheaven at earthlink.net>:
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:54:19 -0400


> The one reason that I don't like KDE is: Everything has a "K" in it.
> 
> KDE has always seemed a little too homophobic for my taste, which is why
> I've always been more partial to GNOME. Well, that and I just don't like
> K(rap)Mail.
> 
> I'm hoping Novell will exert enough influence to bring things a little
> closer together. The only thing Red Hat ever did was push things further
> apart.
> 
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:40, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Jim Philips wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, people come to Slackware for different reasons. I don't want
> > > the distro to get in the way of my choices. Fedora and RedHat are
> > > built out with Gnome in mind. So much so, that there is a whole
> > > project on Sourceforge to provide "pure" KDE in rpm format for
> > > people who don't want the mangled version from RedHat. You can take
> > > Slack wherever you want to go with it and it won't get in your way.
> > > Even if Patrick leaves Gnome out of the next release, Slack users
> > > will still have Dropline Gnome. But I will never like the idea of
> > > somebody shutting down customization options for me and that is what
> > > Gnome does. When people say they don't like the "look" of KDE, I'm
> > > puzzled. Because you can make it look any way you want to. It's
> > > Gnome that makes that tricky.
> > 
> > Well, it may be that I've been using gnome so long and don't spend the
> > 
> > time to learn kde.  I don't like the 'forever' splash startup it has. 
> > I know gnome has the same now, but I don't use the whole gnome, just
> > the parts I want.  That may be what I like about it, then again, maybe
> > you can do that with kde, I don't know.
>