I’ve always been a KDE man. I’ve never really used GNOME, unless I absolutely had to (as some apps don’t port easy across desktops, due to the different engines used by the desktops — QT for KDE, and the GTK for GNOME). But then I read this interview yesterday with one of the Ximian developers about the latest release of their desktop, built on top of GNOME. Very pretty stuff.

What’s been bugging me about KDE 3.1 ever since I started using OS X a bit at home is the lack of a coherent style. If I import a theme, _most_ applications will apply that theme, but others won’t. I know that’s sorta nit-picky for a guy who uses Slackware at home, but if I wanted a crappy looking desktop, I’d cut down my CPU overhead and just use a basic window manager and call it done. The reason I use a desktop environment is cos I want it to be pretty. And I want everything to look pretty. RedHat has tried to address this, with their BlueCurve theme, which does a decent job of applying the theme to all applications. But the new Ximian desktop could be a big step forward. It’ll be a slight pain to get everything tweaked the way I’d like, but it could be worth it…..

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Posted on 4 June 2003