Fortunately we have choice. What one person likes, another despises for the same reason that the other liked it. Go figure. I prefer KDE 4.x. I now use 4.4 and it is quite stable. 4.3 is very stable, but 4.4 has some features that makes it worth the hassle. Crashes with 4.4 are few, but could be disconcerting fro someone expecting rock solid. when it becomes finalized it should be bug free. I think that 4.4 outperforms 3.5 and offers far more features. You can now have different wallpapers on different desktops and folderview instead of plasma contained desktop as in 4.3. For all intents and purposes it looks like 3.5, except better.
GNOME 3 is going down this same path, but they are doing things more incrementally than KDE did. GNOME users don't like change and will likely squawk anyway. I like some aspects of GNOME, but tire of it quickly as I find same old, boring. Ubuntu 10.04 will ship with GNOME 2.30, but 10.10, Maverick will likely ship with GNOME 3, but that depends if they meet their timetable which they have delayed more than once already. I don't care as I use Kubuntu and it has been free of the changes of buttons and colours that sparked outrage by some Ubuntu users. It just shows how touchy GNOME users are. XFCE and LXDE are also great interfaces for those who want speed and don't need the features of GNOME or KDE. As I said, choice is good. The more the better, IMO. Roy On 10 April 2010 15:46, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just read that they control one quarter of the GNOME board. No wonder > > GNOME is so laden with Mono apps. > > Gnome itself is an offense to all principles of good user interface > design. The stuff spewing out of Redmond is better than Gnome. > > KDE 3.5 is probably the high point for Linux user interface. 4.x > hasn't been very good so far. > > KDE 4 has the interesting concept of an application bundle, which is > to package a full application along with libraries together (kind of > like the OS X .app paradigm). IMHO, this solves a major pain in Linux > desktop computing: when I install something, generally it smears stuff > all over /usr, making it nearly impossible for me to delete or upgrade > without the package manager. (A major reason why I put all custom > installed stuff in /opt). With a .app, you could even keep multiple > versions of the same application installed at the same time. In your > user directory even (no need to become root). > > I hope KDE 4 gets better, but the last time I used it... rubbish. > Buggy, unstable, inconsistent, total rubbish. > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! > http://www.fsdev.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
