LXer: The KDE Death Watch

LXer · 02-23-2012, 05:30 AM

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Ever since Kubuntu lost its funding from Canonical, people have been talking about the decline of KDE. Is the concern real?Is KDE dying? This question, or variants of it, have been asked with increasing frequency in the two weeks since Jonathan Riddell announced that, after the next release, Canonical would no longer pay him for his work on Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu. But is the question valid? Or simply unsupported panic?

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craigevil · 02-23-2012, 06:13 AM

Or simply unsupported panic.

Wow so one person isn't getting paid to work on Kubuntu. How does that affect the dozens of people that work on KDE? Kubuntu sucked anyway, it was even more unstable than Ubuntu if that is at all possible.

Take Debian for example, most if not all of the devs do not get paid. And yet Debian has around 30,000 packages in it's repositories.

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-23-2012, 08:33 AM

Yeah, I doubt KDE will die because of one dev not getting paid. The open-source model doesn't depend on money anyway, although it does help and donations are usually accepted.

If KDE does die, it will be for a different reason ... because it sucks.

brianL · 02-23-2012, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

If KDE does die, it will be for a different reason ... because it sucks.

Aw, come on! It's not that bad. If it was crap, do you think Alien Bob would spend so much time and effort building packages for every new release of it? I'm using his 4.6.5 on my desktop, laptop, and netbook, and it's no trouble.

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-23-2012, 09:53 AM

I know many people use it, but I can't stand it. It is heavy, bloated, slow and too much like Window$. One thing that really bothers me and the main reason why I said they suck is: they try to make applications that do everything, but nothing well. Case in point ... Konqueror.

craigevil · 02-23-2012, 06:07 PM

Slow? I run kde4 on this ancient Thinkpad. Takes about a minute to boot but that's mostly because the HD is encrypted lvm. I didn't like kde4 when it first came out, I was a fan of kde3.5, so when 4 entered sid I switched to lxde. Didn't install kde4 until 4.6.5.

Apps all start fast, no lag. Of course I am not using the desktop effects. And I have the various search/file index apps disabled.

But each to his/her own.

Code:

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: debian Kernel: 3.2.0-1-486 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.7.4 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid
Machine:   Mobo: IBM model: 27223YU Bios: IBM version: 1PET41WW (1.09 ) date: 03/03/2003                                     
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium M (-UP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (sse sse2) clocked at 600.00 MHz                         
Graphics:  Card: ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]                                                            
           X.Org: 1.11.3.901 driver: radeon Resolution: 1024x768@60.0hz                                                      
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 7.11.2                     
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0                      
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24                                                              
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82801DB PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller driver: e100                                           
           IF: eth0 state: down mac:                                                                        
           Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter driver: ipw2100                                           
           IF: eth1 state: up mac:                                                                          
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 17.2GB (75.9% used) 1: /dev/sda IC25N020ATCS04 17.2GB                                             
Partition: ID: / size: 16G used: 13G (85%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 16G used: 13G (85%) fs: ext3                               
           ID: /boot size: 228M used: 37M (17%) fs: ext2 ID: swap-1 size: 0.51GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap                  
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0C mobo: 44.0C                                                                       
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A fan-1: 0                                                                            
Info:      Processes: 154 Uptime: 3 days Memory: 918.1/2025.8MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.28

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-24-2012, 06:27 AM

That's even more creepy than the NSA background image someone had.

dugan · 02-26-2012, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by craigevil

Or simply unsupported panic.

The point of the article is that it is unsupported panic.