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Posted by: Dave Walker (Wednesday 12 October 2005, 8:21 PM)

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They aim for different things. Sure they are both 'Desktop Environments' but that is about all they have in common. Gnu Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) tries to be a 'mostly' clean and simple to use with nothing flashy. Whereas KDE has some of the most bleeding edge flashy gizmos around.

As for the QT/GTK argument, I am going to have to say what someone already said. They have different plusses. Being a developer who uses both for cross-DE, I spend a lot of time in QT, and GTK. I have to say I like GTK slightly better, especially now with 2.8+Cairo. QT is simple, and easy to learn, as well as much more featured. So it comes down to which do 'YOU' like more.

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