KDE 4 And Gnome X?
I have read a lot about the next big step for my favorite desktop environment, KDE. All about the Plasma and Superkaramba widgets, Solid hardware library, Tenor search tool, Oxygen icons, the multiple layer window manager and so on... But what I'm wondering now is... Whats going to happen with Gnome? Is there a next big step from these guys too?
Please enlighten me :-) |
Gnome remains a player - however, it's big advantage for long-term survival is still it's licence. The real big step for KDE will be the elimination of the developer licence for Qt. Or is that included in the package?
Lets not have a gnome vs kde war here ... these are competing systems and not the only offerings. One of them is bound to have th particular thing that a particular user wants. So what? |
And as Linux is not there to replace Windows, but rather to serve as an alternative to it, KDE and Gnome shouldn't replace each other, but just exist as alternative desktops. Nothing against a bit of diversity, right?
Each to his own =) -A |
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I am sure GNOME devs will be planning some big changes for the 3.x release. I just hope the focus on simplicity and the HIG thing are lessened a bit because many GNOME apps now lack advanced features because of this. Simplicity is good, but when it gets a bit too far it makes it difficult for others to do stuff. |
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The reason KDE is having such a major overhaul is because they are moving from the 3.x series to version 4. A change in the major version number for any program is a big one, you won't see a change like that in GNOME until GNOME v3 and to the best of my knowledge there are no current plans for that.
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I don't think "keeps up" is quite right here ... lets hope the various WMs manage to maintain a credible choice. (After all, if they are clones of each other there's no really any is there?)
BTW: you all know there's more choice than just Gnome and KDE? |
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Gnome and KDE will never be the same (thank god) but they can have quality, usability and so on at the same level. Both is as good, but good on different stuff and good for different people... Understand? |
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