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O'Neill wrote:
> What is gnome? (I'm a newbie, so forgive me please.)

Gary wrote:
>To answer your question, Gnome is another GUI system similar to KDE.  I
>haven't seen either running, but KDE looks nicer (from the screenshots
>:-)  )
>

Alright, as far as I can tell (and people - correct me if I'm wrong)

KDE and Gnome are both desktop enviroments, KDE has its own window
manager KWM, Gnome uses Gnome aware windows managers (ie Enlightenment
and others that I cant remeber).

KDE is based on the (proprotry) Qt librarys.  
Programs that are KDE aware[1] are also based on Qt.

Gnome is based on the (GPL) GTK librarys.  
Programs that are Gnome aware[1] are also based on GTK.

KDE is on version 1, Gnome is still in beta.

I have KDE, I want Gnome (as well).  I'm hoping (sp?) that Gnome can
be added to the kdm (xdm for KDE) session list.

The most imressive Linux app I've since installing it is the GIMP
which is baes on GTK (infact AFAIK GTK was developed specifically for
GIMP and GNOME), so if GNOME is of the same quality them its going to
crush all before it with is might and glory!

Thad

Note [1]
As far as I can tell you can run KDE/Gnome apps without KDE/Gnome so
long as you have Qt/GTK installed, I'm not sure what is lost by not
having the desktop managers as I havent tryed it.