GNOME vs KDE — for me this war is over.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Filed under: Linux — Tags: — Dmitri @ 10:38

About half year have passed since I installed Linux. My first desktop environment was GNOME, but I tried KDE too. GNOME has a less options, that was very cheerful for me and all was fine and I, as web-developer, was happy.

But!

One of my work’s needs is quick open/create/delete/copy/move files over remote FTP/SCP/SSH servers. I haven’t found any software (at least correctly working) for GNOME to complete this task, but in KDE I found that Krusader and Kate are OK. Some people will argue against: “You can install KDE apps on the GNOME as well!”
Yes, that’s true, but these software needs to be configured over “infinite” text files and settings to teach GNOME environment to understand fish:// and sftp:// protocols.

I don’t want to spend days on the configuration. I want to install and start to work.

So, my choice is KDE.

If you know some software which is working like WinSCP. You are welcome! Drop me a line.

Do not offer!

  • WinSCP with Wine.
  • Nautilus is sucks, very slow process and working incorrectly sometimes.
  • gFTP, I really don’t know what this software is used for.
  • FileZilla, Gnome-commander, muCommander, Kasablanca…

They are all sucks for my needs.

© 2008 Dmitri Smirnov