2.28 just came out, but that’s not really what i wanted to write about. mostly i just want to say how much i like gnome. in fact i’ve pretty much always liked gnome. newer releases seem so polished and responsive.

gnome has always been a favorite of mine, but i’m not really that biased when it comes to desktop environments. at one point i preferred kde over gnome, that was during kde 3.5.x series, that was a very full featured environment. and i used kde 3.5 for quite some time. around that time i wasn’t incredibly happy with gnome’s direction with the default spatial mode, and seemingly removing lots of useful options. i spend most of my time in gnome nowadays but….

i actually am happy with kde 4.x. i love the new qt. everything is way sleeker than ever before and much quicker to launch. the only thing i do not like is no icons on the desktop by default. now, i haven’t done any research on how to get icons back, but just this moment i found – http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-create-desktop-icons-in-kde4.html

so evidently it is possible to get traditional desktop icons back. i’ll try that sometime. why do i want desktop icons? well my preferred version of a desktop is what i consider to be the “win95” model. program menu lower left, system tray lower right, commonly used files on my desktop, a quicklaunch for commonly used applications (though i think this made its appearance in win98 or win98se?), etc. that’s the desktop i enjoy, nothing fancy. and really so far i am very anti-widgets. get that garish crap outta here.