Nick Rout wrote:
On 11/21/2006, "Rik Tindall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
It really is hard to know what it is you have against kde and qt.
..but the sense I get is one of an overwhelming antagonism from K-ites
against Gnomies.
The contest has intense importance, because, as with and against M$,
these environments are competing for developers - under conditions of
programmer shortage - to retain eyeballs.
cheers, rik
I haven't seen an out and out slugfest between gnome adherents and kde
adherents for years now. In fact you are the only person I have seen who
discusses it with such antagonism.
It is a mistake to personalise this Nick, because the finger you point
is at a mirror.
Most people I know are happy to have
as many libraries on their systems as is required to run the software
that they want, whether it is gtk based, gnome based, qt based or kde
based. Its not as if a modern machine will fall apart because you load
both the kde and gnome libraries on board. Hardware is relatively cheap.
No argument there, as stated elsewhere in thread. More message
de-distortion to follow..
Oh and it is important to have both. The competition is good for the
progress of both. If there was only one major desktop, progress would be
slower, even if that desktop had the combined programmers of kde and
gnome.
Hmm. Maybe.
Attend http://lca2007.linux.org.au or similar, to observe how both KDE &
GNOME are crying out for developers - in the same space.
Both are good products. ..Different uses?
And not to ignore the others. XFCE4 is a damned fine working environment,
as are others.
Sounds clever, but actually OT. The discussion was of the macro desktop
landscape, and not what indiv.micro.User might choose.
i.e. Is there a 'great desktop shakedown' in the offing, forced upon
KDE/GNOME (read SuSE/RedHat?) within the *nix/M$ tussle? Within a
Europe/US contest? - Or more of a Novell/M$ tussle? Larry Allison's
Ora-call?..
i.e. Is that context what will effect our choice the most, into the
future (subject to patent$)?
And are we allowed to discuss it?
--
Rik
