Id like to take this time to mention some pros and cons about Gnome and KDE......You be the judge of which interface you prefer. Some Facts and prefrences.

KDE's interface is a bit more upbeat at present than GNOME, while GNOMEs embedded arhitecture is more efficient and extensible.

KDE is written in C++, and application developers are restricted to C++. GNOME uses CORBA technology, which enables GNOME applications to be written in any language for which there is a language binding.

GNOME uses GIMP ToolKit, or GTK, as a widget library. One of the great advantages of GTK is the use of themes to change the appearance of desktop display. KDE is more restricted on the look and feel of the desktop and applications.

KDE doesn't just build on a window manager to provide its services, it is the window manager as well. Beneath the surface, while Gnome applications use the GTK+ library to draw their user interface, KDE uses a library from Troll Tech Inc called Qt.

Because KDE was built on Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit, at the time a closed-source program, developers and users from from the Free Software Foundation school of thought were dissappointed in KDE's inherently non-free nature. So GNOME was launched to join the other GNU software projects created purely under the GPL. In late 1998, Trolltech released Qt under a custom open source license, but its restrictions did no impress the GNU and GNOME crowd. Recently, Trolltech added GPL to the Qt license scheme, and the next major version of KDE is rebuilt on the GPL Qt system, putting it on equal legal footing with GNOME.

Both GNOME and KDE can be deployed on most Unix systems, as well as Linux and BSD. That flexibility is starting to bear fruit, particularly for GNOME. Sun has indicated its intention to ultimately replace CDE on Solaris with GNOME, and HP has been named as a possibilty to follow.

COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS WELCOME.....WHICH DO YOU PREFER?