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Re: [SLE] KDE is a community _and_ a DE.
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:37:24 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511120837.07821.hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:29 am, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "I'm just happy we picked one [desktop]. It makes no sense to support two
> > desktops that do the same thing when you're trying to cut costs." - Greg
> > Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's director of marketing for Linux
> >
> > I have a hard time reading much else into that statement.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/66068
Thanks, that's reassuring.
I will have to say this. After poking around in the GNOME a bit to see if it
provides the same level of functionality as the KDE I have concluded that it
does not, and in a big way. I'm not going to get into details, but there are
features in the KDE that are simply better than their GNOME counterparts.
Steven
> On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "I'm just happy we picked one [desktop]. It makes no sense to support two
> > desktops that do the same thing when you're trying to cut costs." - Greg
> > Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's director of marketing for Linux
> >
> > I have a hard time reading much else into that statement.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/66068
Thanks, that's reassuring.
I will have to say this. After poking around in the GNOME a bit to see if it
provides the same level of functionality as the KDE I have concluded that it
does not, and in a big way. I'm not going to get into details, but there are
features in the KDE that are simply better than their GNOME counterparts.
Steven
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