GNOME 2.20: A new hope!

[infra_red_dude]

no, seriously vish. no wonder i prefer gnome: light, simple, extremely customizable. these are really the strong points of gnome against kde.

[Pathik]

KDE fan here.. But not a fanboy.. Ll switch to gnome if i like it more..

[infra_red_dude]

yeah i used to prefer kde too (mebbe even now after kde 4 is released). but extremely customisability is whats pulls me to gnome.

[praka123]

kde too advertises customization as its big point.many prefers kde for customization thingy only.@ird:u can try kde4 soon.
Gnome may(can) not be able to achieve the superiority and apps,customizablitly as in kde.
g33ks may be living in europe afaik Europe completely prefers Kde!
while US,India and few other countries shows Gnome usage larger(may be ubuntu?)

but still Gnome DE is a darling for newbies and non-tech-savvy(non-geeks) people to use as Gnome "simply works" without customization after every install.although Gnome hides its customizability as registry.(infact some says a registry db is a good idea that it saves all configs and option in a central location).no,not the way windows(binary) registry works and bloats and slowing down the system.

Above all Gnome is the project of -->FSF
reg,the earlier post
just to refresh what Linus told.

[subratabera]

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

yeah i used to prefer kde too (mebbe even now after kde 4 is released). but simplicity is whats pulls me to gnome.

+1

But waiting for KDE 4.0 (4.1, 4.2... etc. to be more precise) eagerly...

[infra_red_dude]

let kde 4 be released first... lets wait and watch.

[praka123]

infact u can get more ideas about gconf(registry?) here:
http://polishlinux.org/gnome/gconf-g...nder-the-hood/
and gconf cleaner
http://code.google.com/p/gconf-cleaner/
debs for debian,ubuntu:
http://www.getdeb.net/release.php?id=1229

[infra_red_dude]

actually its better if gconf is kept minimalistic in nature. we don't want it to become analogous to the windows registry!!!

[praka123]

gconf is actually xml files unlike win registry.

[infra_red_dude]

yeah, but giving too much control to it is not good!