Changing sides....

Yes it finally happened !!! i outcasted myself ( no no i still do use emacs).

I recently installed Ubuntu Hoary on my notebook, with an intent of upgrading it to kubuntu and then migrating all my knoppix configs to it. But after spending few days in gnome, i am now an experimental convert. I always said KDE doesn't feel right, and i keep struggling to get it the way just i like it. Don't take me wrong... its not the KDE's lack of functionality or configurability thats a problem here. Its just that i can't find the right combo that i like. It just doesn't satisfy me. It gives all the bells and whistles and a lot more, but still that empty feeling creeps in.
But with GNOME i started feeling home right from the beginning. The fact that adding few applets is the only thing i have changed in the whole desktop setup is a good testimonial to the right things the GNOME usability group is doing. I think all  the research and effort that went into creating the ui guidelines has finally paid off. In the end the clean and simple usability that has won my appreciation.
I am going to stick with gnome for a while now...
For some reason i just feel this is not going to be a short lived affair.