Re: KDE and GNOME - some reality check..

[Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo]

HBH>> Easel - they're going to revolutionise the way Linux is being used and
HBH>> it will be the most easy OS (and they also state it will be easier then
HBH>> Mac). Reality: from the screenshots I cannot see anything that KDE 2
HBH>> doesn't have.

*beep* wrong arument. Without you proving that KDE doesn't "revolutionise
the way Linux is being used and it will be the most easy OS" (which would
be strange thing to see KDE PR person to prove) you just said nothing
except "mee too". Also, from screenshots you can hardly see anything in
90% of cases. Screenshots are just mean to give food to your imagination,
and show only how pretty the thing is going to be, not how it will work.


HBH>> Evolution - looks like a very good idea. BUT Miguel states that this
HBH>> program will be able to connect to Microsoft Exchange server. Reality:
HBH>> How many people who are not working in Microsoft knows the X.400 & X.500
HBH>> protocols to communicate with Exchange servers? I looked for some info
HBH>> about it few months ago and all the people I talked to said it was WAY
HBH>> too complicated and gave up. So I hardly see Evolution comes out of the
HBH>> prototype/hype idea..

*beep* FUD alert! I will, or it won't - we can see only when time passes.
Not before. After all, Samba succeeds to work with Windows gut protocols,
why Miguel can't?

HBH>> Stability: I have tried numereous times all the Gnome Releases: 1.1,
HBH>> October release, helix version, u name it - it took me something like an
HBH>> hour to crash the entire GNOME enviroment (specially with all those cute
HBH>> applets). On the KDE side I can say that I'm using my Linux machines
HBH>> with KDE for months (already 5 months) and not a single crash!

*beep* comparing apples to oranges. You *used* KDE, but you *tried to
crash* GNOME. At least that's what you are saying. You can crash both KDE
and GNOME pretty easily if you purpose this (especially with those funny
applets which nobody really cares of), but if you *use* them crashes are
rarely. In fact, only crash-prone applet I saw was gproc, and it never
caused panel crash with it's death. I saw panel crash once, as I said, and
I still doubt what caused it.

HBH>> CORBA: really nice idea for connecting objects. Go ahead and ask the KDE
HBH>> & KOffice people about it and they'll laugh. Why? few months ago Koffice
HBH>> did have CORBA inside, and it was a beautiful way to make your Pentium
HBH>> 500 behave as Pentium 100, so they have decided to remove the CORBA
HBH>> parts from it and use DCOP (but you can still use CORBA on KDE
HBH>> applications), so I really don't know how the latest GNOME will behave
HBH>> on slow machines (Pentium 300 and slower machines)

In fact, most users won't use it anyway. How many of word documents have
Excel spreadsheets inside? And how fast is it working? And nobody seems to
care. When GNOME gets to this level, they might start to worry about
this. They better to get it working, and then start caring about slowness
(as long as it remains reasonably fast to be usable). After all,
StarOffice is soooo slow, and you don't see too may people (except me)
rejecting it on this ground.

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