Sigh... Questions like this always seem to come up... I never understand why, but...
So... One of the grooviest things about using a *nix is that you use X, and which ever
gui you prefer, some like kde, some like fvwm, some like gnome, some like sawmill, and
some
are like myself and like
You say:
Which desktop environment is going to dominate Linux in
three years?
We are in the proliferation stage. We will expect to see
several desktops over the next year. Then we will
see some level of
John Sechrest wrote
And perhaps some local specific app.
And kool Games.
How about 'l33t gamz?
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It's open source, the less popular desktops aren't going away.
I'd guess, on ideological grounds, Gnome has the advantage (and
looks less like Windows). Debian influences far beyond its distribution
(as it should).
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Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TaxiLinux
Hey, here's a question for the assembled wisdom. Which desktop
environment is going to dominate Linux in three years? KDE had an
early lead, but it hasn't had a stable release in over a year, and
Gnome is progressing rapidly. Gnome seems to have a lot more
commercial development (e.g., Eazel,
Gnome is the "great unfinished project" and works even though you know
it'll get better. It has lots of potential, but we'll see where it
goes.
KDE is good and easy to transition to, but has funky licensing.
Why no just run a real wm without all the extra crap on top of it?
--Mike
Bob Miller
Seth Cohn wrote:
Gnome has more than a desktop, it's got the internal stuff like Bonobo
(inter-app comm) which is badly needed.
Is Bonobo anything more than a reimplementation of Microsoft COM?
In Miguel di Izaca's paper that was on /. yesterday
Couldn't agree more - check windowmaker out at
http://www.windomaker.org. Clean, fast, light-weight,
stable, 24bit color with textures and shading, Gnome
and KDE hint compatible (i.e. apps written for either
are perfectly happy under windowmaker). You don't
need a "desktop" when you have popup
I think GUI development is one area that's going to really grow in the
next 6 months. KDE's releasing v2, and GNOME is transforming into
Helix. Add to that the fact that there are really good minimal wm's out
there, and life is looking good.
I've always said that one of the strengths of any
