Repeat after me, change is good
This weekend was a little crazy for me but I finally made it a somewhat late to hackfest that Kattni hosted. Thanks again Kattni, it was a great time. Why there I did not do very much hacking. I instead decided that it was time to take another look at Gnome. Maybe it was the Gnome cake or all the Gnome folks around. At any rate I fired up apt-get and installed Gnome in on my laptop. To make sure I really used it I even went so fair as to uninstall KDE.
It is now some five days later and I have to say that painfull as it was I am warming up to Gnome. I have to thank harshy for helping me get started and tweek Gnome when I first installed it. I have figured out how to make icons to all my network shares and have found some thing I like about the spacial file manager. Switching from Konversation to Xchat was easy and painless. I always have used gaim so I did not switch my IM apps. I have not burned a CD yet but when I do I have Coaster ready for that job. Though I have exclusively used KDE for years Gnome seems to do things the way I expect them to be done
I really wanted to avoid criticizing Gnome but I have to say something about speed. I was always told by people how big and bloated KDE was. I some how had the impression that kdeinit was like an anchor dragging all my apps to a glacial pace. Perhaps I had not herd this recently but I just always had this notion that KDE was slow but pretty. I really was way off on this one! Gnome is hands down slower on my Fujitsu P series laptop. Everyday I have tried some tips and tricks and now mater what I do Gnome is slow. I wish I knew how to fix it because the speed might be the single reason I move back to KDE.
Even with the nasty speed issue I plan to be patient with Gnome and will wait to do anything until I use the new version of gnome on breezy.