is the kings gambit better when transposed into from the bishops opening?
Sometimes you can reach a position of the King's Gambit Declined from the Bishop's Opening that's favorable for White, but generally the f4 move in the Bishop's Opening is best done a little later. The chess engines Stockfish 8 and Houdini 2 both rate White down the equivlent of half a pawn after 3 f4 - assuming Black played the almost automatic 2...Nf6, attacking the White e-Pawn.
A high school team I coached got a lot of success out of 1 e4 e5, 2 Bc4 Nf6 3 d3 Nc6 4 Nc3 then -if Black does NOT play 4...Bc5 - 5 f4! generally works well. Stockfish 8, looking 20 ply deep, says White is slightly up after 4...e6 5 f4! and no other move is strongly recommended over it.
If Black doesn't immediately exchange, we had good results with 6 f5 where Black's pieces are all blocked to the Q-side and White can put his QN at d5, castle long, and get all his pieces smashing into Black's K-side, led by a f, g, h Pawn charge.
BUT, if Black gets in that ...Bc5 move, Stockfish and Houdini think f4 puts White behind half a pawn and, we found with that Black B near the center, moves like ...d5, ...Nd4, ...a6 and ...b5 make a strong counter and White can find his King vulnerable.
So, if Black plays an early Bc5, we'd often go with Nf3 and play a variation of the Giuoco Piano where your pieces are well protected and, while you try to make threatening moves, you're mostly waiting for Black to make a mistake, positionally or tactically.
Note that the Vienna is also an opening in the same group that sometimes transpose into each other.