The choice between KDE and Gnome depends on where your target audience lies.
We all know Gnome is more newb friendly then KDE, at the cost of some customizability. And we all know KDE offers more customizability and a lot of cool software (K3B, Amarok, Quanta), but can be a little more complicated for the newb user to get to know. Another thing you have to cosider is that if we're going to release a CD, it's going to be one toolkit or the other. (For example: There won't be space to offer a complete Kubuntu-like feature set and still include the Gnome libs, and vice versa) You also wont be able to fit a complete KDE with a Complete OpenOffice on one CD. Sure, there is Koffice, but Koffice still has some way to go. And besides, I don't think it makes a lot of sense to take out OpenOffice while that's one of the apps that Sun is investing a lot in. Also remember that some more or less "essential" software uses the GTK toolkit: Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape. And Synaptic is also a lot nicer than Kpackage, Adept or Kynaptic. And I said it before: it's best to just take Ubuntu as an example from a feature perspective.. They're doing pretty good after all. :-) On 23/06/07, Stefan Teleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/23/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/23/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a better idea. Don't state things that are an opinion as fact. > > KDE is not *factually* superior. Everyone has their own preference. > > no, but KIO and other such things mean that it is /factually/ much > more integrated. And yes, everyone has their own preference which is > why this shouldn't be a decision made by Sun Microsystems' executive > fiat. This is advertised as a community distro, and Sun Microsystems > employees coming down and saying "This is how it shall be done" is not > the way to build a community, it's just SUNW flexing it's muscles > > > Secondly, what you propose makes absolutely no sense given that most > > of the community's resources are invested in GNOME. Why would we ship > > KDE when most of the time is spent on GNOME? That doesn't make any > > sense. > > Sun pays some people to work on GNOME. this doesn't mean the > community's resources are committed to it, it just means that sun pays > some people to work on GNOME. Sun also loses money because of this, as > the German government migrates to SuSE in part because of KDE. > > > KDE also has a *factually* less-friendly business license than GNOME > > if you want to write proprietary commercial software. > > that's complete rubbish. Trolltech will sell you a proprietary license > for it, and if that's not acceptable, KDE can run GTK apps perfectly > fine. In recent versions, with a similar widget set But we should all recognize a few undeniable facts: Although neither a Sun Microsystems employee, nor a designated community representative, nor having ever contributed a single line of code to the KDE Project, or to QT, Mr. Walker pontificates destkop inclusion decisions, Trolltech license interpretations, and in-depth technical details about KDE, and QT, apparently on behalf of Sun Microsystems, the Indiana Project, and the community at large. We should consider ourselves fortunate that someone with such outstanding insights as Mr. Walker is willing to share these insights with all of us, thereby providing invaluable guidance to the Indiana Project. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman KDE e.V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
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