Gnome or KDE going forward in RHEL

Hi Senior Cadence AE's:

What is Cadence's preference going forward in terms of WMs with dfII?
Is Gnome preferred over KDE? The AEs that visit us and run the latest
and greatest IC6.1 seem to prefer KDE, as do we. However I hear from
our internal digital groups that their Cadence AE's are pushing for
Gnome.

thanks!
Nicolas

 

Gnome is known to be less resource hungry than KDE
Since KDE id written in object oriented languages
this could be the rreason

 

Gnome sucks, KDE rules. Of course, Cadence has to "recomend" Gnome. I
know from their support that KDE is used internally. If Gnome is such
a ruler, why do guys like me bother to make effort to change? I want
the convenience of KDE, not the speed of Gnome (if Gnome is such a
speedier desktop, I don't know) AND I think this resource talk is from
way back in time. From my experience with my colleagues, there are
only disadvantages with Gnome compared to KDE in my eyes. They don't
bother to do those two extra clicks in gdm to get the real thing, and
when they complain about stuff, my quote is: "won't happen with KDE"

 

I don't think Cadence makes any kind of recommendation for Gnome. Probably you
could say the same about KDE. I think we try to be agnostic about this. Certain
individual AEs may have their own preferences of course...

Personally I prefer KDE - and since lots of apps (Cadence included) are using
Qt, and KDE is built using Qt, there seems a synergy there.

Both window managers have their problems (I still miss the true virtual desktop
that fvwm2 had - but it's easier for me to standardize on something a bit more
common these days).

Regards,

Andrew.