<div id="jive-html-wrapper-div"> The choice between KDE and Gnome depends on where your target audience lies.<br><br>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. <br><br>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) <br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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. :-) <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefan Teleman</b> <<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 6/23/07, John Sonnenschein <<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> wrote:<br>> On 6/23/07, Shawn Walker <<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] </a>> wrote:<br><br>> > I have a better idea. Don't state things that are an opinion as fact.<br>> > KDE is not *factually* superior. Everyone has their own preference.<br>><br>> no, but KIO and other such things mean that it is /factually/ much <br>> more integrated. And yes, everyone has their own preference which is<br>> why this shouldn't be a decision made by Sun Microsystems' executive<br>> fiat. This is advertised as a community distro, and Sun Microsystems <br>> employees coming down and saying "This is how it shall be done" is not<br>> the way to build a community, it's just SUNW flexing it's muscles<br>><br>> > Secondly, what you propose makes absolutely no sense given that most <br>> > of the community's resources are invested in GNOME. Why would we ship<br>> > KDE when most of the time is spent on GNOME? That doesn't make any<br>> > sense.<br>><br>> Sun pays some people to work on GNOME. this doesn't mean the <br>> community's resources are committed to it, it just means that sun pays<br>> some people to work on GNOME. Sun also loses money because of this, as<br>> the German government migrates to SuSE in part because of KDE. <br>><br>> > KDE also has a *factually* less-friendly business license than GNOME<br>> > if you want to write proprietary commercial software.<br>><br>> that's complete rubbish. Trolltech will sell you a proprietary license <br>> for it, and if that's not acceptable, KDE can run GTK apps perfectly<br>> fine. In recent versions, with a similar widget set<br><br>But we should all recognize a few undeniable facts:<br><br>Although neither a Sun Microsystems employee, nor a designated <br>community representative, nor having ever contributed a single line of<br>code to the KDE Project, or to QT, Mr. Walker pontificates destkop<br>inclusion decisions, Trolltech license interpretations, and in-depth<br>technical details about KDE, and QT, apparently on behalf of Sun <br>Microsystems, the Indiana Project, and the community at large.<br><br>We should consider ourselves fortunate that someone with such<br>outstanding insights as Mr. Walker is willing to share these insights<br>with all of us, thereby providing invaluable guidance to the Indiana <br>Project.<br><br>--Stefan<br><br>--<br>Stefan Teleman<br>KDE e.V.<br><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>indiana-discuss mailing list <br><a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br><a href="http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss";>http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss</a><br> </blockquote></div><br>
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