Set KDE as default in Ubuntu? Differences

[koder]

I switch between the two desktops with some regularity.

>From the user's standpoint the switch is almost just cosmetic.
Like most things involved in computers it is the almost that gets you.

There are some apps that run better under one than the other.
Some of the KDE specific apps will not play well under Gnome, I just
don't use them.

KDE does not put an icon on your desktop if you auto mount plug in
disks. When you switch back to gnome sometimes you will have the auto
mound icons put on your desktop a second time.

The menu structure is quite a bit different between them. In KDE there
is more flexibility in customizing them using the drawer metaphor. You
can have your own sub and sub-sub menus. You can do that in Gnome, but
it is more difficult.

>From the development standpoint Gnome and KDE use different systems.
There seems to a trend toward making them more interchangeable, but it
is not 100% yet

I don't run Compiz and can't address it.

Try it, it will not hurt anything to switch between them, except for the
spurious auto mount icons. 

Harold


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Set KDE as default in Ubuntu?
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:49:07 -0700

Here is a question, how much will carry over if i were to switch to
KDE from Gnome? to anyone that has done this?

somewhat related to this thread.

for example i know the documents will still be there book marks in
firefox, but will compiz and my displays reset themselves? or the RDP
links i have saved?

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And all because you didn't spend the 40 minutes to download a kubuntu
>> .iso and make an install CD.
>>
>>  I laugh WITH you!
>
> Indeed.  My impatience was blinding me to the better solution.  I used
> what I had in hand at the time.  LOL.
>
> Alan
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