by Jitto
How to use KDE Plasma with GNOME
January 6, 2010 in Ubuntu by Jitto
KDE GNOME
Plasma desktop is one of the main attractions in KDE 4 series. It enabled KDE comparable to any other Windows or Mac OSX interface in terms of beauty. But only a small percentage of Ubuntu users use KDE . There are many reasons for that.
Though KDE is beautiful, its not that much easy or straight forward as GNOME. KDE is fairly complex for absolutely new users.
Most of the ubuntu’s developments are primarily targeting GNOME. So people think that to get full support from Ubuntu, they should use GNOME.
And of course some people are not using KDE just because it resembles Windows. They terribly hate Windows.
But some good portion of KDE’s beauty can be ported to GNOME. Plasma desktop is one of them.
GNOME with Plasma Desktop
In Ubuntu Forums, there is an article which describes in detail about adding plasma desktop to GNOME. You need to install some KDE packages. And of course you can revert back to original GNOME at any time.
You can read the detailed tutorial HERE
(Found via webupd8.org)
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I like KDE look.. but cant leave GNOME. Let me try this…
Why gnome is still not concern about Beauty. Apple and Windows have improved alot …
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Thanks for the link man!, I tried this and I don't find KDE hard to use at all, and I never sued it as a desktop before. Quite the opposite. Many things are easier now than with GNOME, or at least possible now that were not possible before. I also checked those KDE 4.4 videos and it looks like I'll be switching completely to KDE after version 4.4 gets released.