Nicolas Linkert wrote:
One assumes
that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is
no 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very
nice to have a 'community working on it' but
companies like the warm fuzzy feeling knowing that
there are people they can ring up and abuse when
things go wrong.
<br><br>Which brings up the other question - why on
gods green earth did SUN go with GNOME? why not just
buy out Trolltech, release Qt under
CDDL?<br><br>Matty<br></div></div>
I'm glad they didn't do this. I mean really - can you imagine KDE as a business desktop? I can't. It certainly is a desktop for - cough, script kiddies, cough - but certainly not for serious work in an office. It CAN be tweaked - but the only acceptable solution I have seen so far is the Wienux desktop (KDE desktop for the City of Vienna).
AND - something one should never forget: SUN is a North American company which
means GNOME is generally more acceptable there. KDE might have its followers in
Europe, but in North America this is just the other way around.
Sorry to disappoint you but a large chunk of the Sun engineers that work
on GNOME are in Europe and parts of the world other than the USA, quite
a few are in Dublin, Ireland and there are even people in NZ.
Also the choice between GNOME and KDE was really all technical. One of
the biggest issues at the time the choice had to be made was the fact
that GNOME is C at the code and KDE is C++. At that time there were
some major issues with the C++ ABI between versions of gcc and between
gcc and Sun Studio compilers.
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Darren J Moffat
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