Aqua-Soft ForumsThought Id ask the question. Ive been using KDE for its customizability, but ive fallen in love w/ GNOME. Yeah, I cant change that much, but I like the defaults, alot. It is a little slower though.
What DE Do You Use?
right now im likeing kde over gnome for the same reason that im reading in this forum.
but i haven't played with any shells except kde and gnome in a couple of years, so i will have to check more out soon. for the time being, kde
To me Kde is ugly, even after you've skinned it.
I expect if you skinned it enough you could get rid of all its initial appearances, but why bother when theres gnome.
The only problem with gnome is that not enough other people seem to use it 
Gnome doesn't have so many programs. I want Garamba!
I am using KDE altho for me gnome is a far superior windows manager, the only reason why I use KDE right now is Karamba (I would kill/pay money for a gnome port of this awesome tool)
You can already download unstable version of gnome 2.3(dev edition) but since I use linux mainly for work I can't affors the unstability.
Enlightenment 17 looks awesome, but I am waiting to see how configurable it is.
As for what apps are in one and not in the other... it doesn't matter, except for apps that are really tied to the DE you can run any app in any windows manager.. ie. evolution in KDE, or Konqueror in GNOME, of course you need both DE installed.
yeah Karamba was mainly what i was thinking of.
is it possible with more recent releases of gnome/nautilus to browse samba shares using nautilus?
I have gnome 2.0 and whatever nautilus came with it. I have to use Konquerer to browse shares at the moment which is annoying.
You can run KDE programs on GNOME if you have the QT bases installed (which you do if your using KDE).
Im pretty sure you can run Karamba in GNOME. It wont run just as fast, but its performance is fine. Its the same way that you can run GTK apps in KDE (GAIM,GIMP, Mozilla).
I prefer GNOME too, KDE looks like fisher price toys 
and contrasutra its rigth, you can run KDE progs in GNOME, well I've only tried Kwrite under GNOME because I've only used linux for programming and well I hated it 
see ya