I think you had a point.... until GNOME 2.0. GNOME 1.4 was absolutely beautiful, and KDE 2.x was hella ugly. It's the other way around now, however, and KDE 3.x has much more eye candy, good looks, and especially customizability these days than GNOME 2.4 does. I guess it's a design feature though-- GNOME 2.4 was MADE to be quite buisness like as KDE 2.x and 1.x once were. KDE 3.x, on the hand, has ramped up configurability a lot, and a lot of eye candy has come also. The new version of crystal in KDE 3.2 is pretty nice ( http://www.kde-look.org/content/prev...ile=8341-1.jpg )

Perhaps it'll change in GNOME 3.0 and KDE 4.0, who knows. Maybe i'll switch back to GNOME then.

FluxBox!!!

Fluxbox all the way. 1.0 is going to own all.

Erm, what does fluxbox have to do with a desktop environment? wrong catagory? =P

why not XPDE??

I have use KDE and GNOME, the truth is is that i lime more kde.
What is the difference between window manager and desktop environment?

Got to be Gnome for me - 2.4 is ruling the roost jsut now

I love GTK and I love GNOME

KDE has become quite good as an environment, but I prefer GTK apps - AbiWord, Gnumeric, Pan, Gaim, Evolution - to me this says that KDE is lacking fundamentally.

I havn't experienced Gnome 2.4 so I'll not comment. Even 2.2 tho seemed clunky - and I HATE Nautilus. GTK apps work better that KDE equivalents IMHO.

XFCE4 is really interesting which is why I voted for it - fast and functional. I'm interested in seeing where it goes in the next year.

I have been using XFCE for the last week, and all I really like about it is the window manager and the ease of configuring the window manager. I am not crazy about the panel, the file manager or anything else. But I would recommend it to those who like having a desktop enviroment but are leaning toward a window manager.

I have used Gnome for about a total of 10 minutes in the last year, so being a person with poor memory, I don't feel as though I can vote for it, although I do remember liking it.

I don't like KDE. Period.

I've never used GNUstep or Ximian.

So it's a toss up between XFCE and Gnome, though I think there should be a "Desktop Enviroment's stink, I like Window Managers" to vote on. I think that is where I am leaning.

Kde doesn't work my sound properly and its a bit OTT for what i'd be doing on the comp (web sites, images, email, programming and surfing. Oh yeah music and video)

Repeat after me:

XFCE, XFCE, XFCE.

Everything else is bloatware.

I have been using KDE for years....until I made the switch to XFce4. If you want to see/hear the difference just play an MP3 in KDE then try XFce4 or any small desktop...KDE must be a hawg! My sound is better and so are my vid's. Programs ...even Gimp start fast..in KDE Gimp would take a couple of seconds.

I think this was my first year to really use KDE, and I was like wow where have I been, do I really have friends how come they didn't tell me about this...

I'm running KDE 3.1.4, no complaints. -- J.W.