Desktop GUI Poll 2007

[Redman]

Gnome has my choice!

Glad to see CentOS5 will include Gnome 2.16.0 and alacarte which (finally) will provide the ability to edit the Gnome menu

[bigtomrodney]

I'm surprised Gnome is doing better. It is no more popular than any other year so far which surprises me given the popularity of Ubuntu and the fact that SUSE has become more Gnome-centric.

I have always been a KDE fan first and foremost, but I was getting a bit bored of the last few releases and the promise of KDE4 was underlining that for me. When Compiz was released my first exposure to it was through one of the live disks and it was running Gnome. I thought it looked fantastic and when I finally installed it I thought it didn't look nearly as good with KDE not to mention the extra trouble at the time to run it on KDE.

Ever since I've been a Gnome user though I suspect come KDE4 I'll be right back over with the guys. Particularly if some of the brainstorm screenshots on kde-look are taken as inspiration.

What I would say for both sides is that I prefer the Applications/Places/System menu but I miss the context menus and their ease of configuration from KDE.

[ndh]

xfce mostly, although i also use fluxbox and enlightenment 17 from time to time

[{-n()rx-}]

I use Fluxbox. Used KDE, and XFce 4.4, but they just didnt feel like home.
Waiting for Enlightenment 17 (e17) to come out of beta though.

[tommytabib]

From the very beginning I really preferred KDE because it looked more like windows xp to me. But when i finally gave GNOME a try and realized that you could edit all the panels and make it look more like xp i switched to GNOME.

Although with KDE4 coming i really don't know anymore. P.S. i voted for gnome

[Muser]

Gnome + Beryl

Beautiful

[daacosta]

KDE... But I have liked the others xfce and Gnome... In actuality, I like them all but currently it is KDE...

[truthfatal]

KDE + beryl/compiz or Fluxbox.
Depending on my mood.

Yay Polls.

[anomie]

Used kde long ago, moved to xfce. For the past few months I've been using only fluxbox.

[oz]

I've dropped Xfce and am back to running FVWM, once again.

It's hell to configure unless you use someone else's ready-to-go config files, but it's fun to play with, you have tremendous control, you can make it look just about any way you want, and you learn a great deal about how WMs work. My own config is a very simple one that I constructed and modified from various bits and parts of other user's configs.

The bottom line... FVWM is fun!