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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, David L. Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:47:13PM -0500, David E. Edwards wrote:
> > > I'm trying to understand GNOME.
> > > Am I correct in assuming that GNOME is not a window manager.
> > > And that it is an API.
> > > (sorry guys, but Mainframes; COBOL; REXX; Winblows; Novell; NT; Solaris;
> > > Connect:Direct; confused (and confusing) Users; Y2K; Systems Support
> > > making arbitrary changes and "Expert Programmers" all in 1 day is
> > > taking its toll 8-{{)
> > > Dave E.
> > > dedwards@technologist.com
> >
> > It's a desktop environment, with associated programs. Kde is another
> > one. Gnome doesn't have one single window manager, but a couple of
> > window managers are Gnome aware: icewm, windowmaker, and Enlightenment.
> > Blackbox can be somewhat Gnome aware with a patch. But a Gnome-aware
> > window manager isn't critical. Some of the program are still under
> > development.
>
> Kde is another one, what?
> Kde is a desktop correct?
> Is gnome exclusive of Kde or independent?
>
GNOME and KDE are pretty much the same thing, except GNOME uses GTK and
KDE uses QT
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