Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Matt Sealey" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Birger Kollstrand
<birger.kollstrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/1/15 Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > We're especially interested in benchmarks and areas where we may be
> > doing plain stupid stuff during boot (kernel, system or GNOME desktop).
>
> Does this indicate that KDE is not interesting in this case?

KDE won't be interesting until 4.3 gets released and it's actually
usable as an enterprise desktop and not just a REALLY clever and
exciting desktop for people who like the bleeding edge.

> Now we are a Qt shop, use KDE and have for 7 years. It seems more and
> more likely that we will drop Novell as it is getting more and more
> apparent that Novell has made a choice on the desktop.

Novell has made the choice that KDE have all but abandoned KDE 3.5.x
to concentrate on KDE 4.x, but KDE 4.x is just not ready for
enterprise. It's a little different for openSUSE.

I'm the president of the one-man Qt supporter's department in our
company and while I would dearly, dearly love to use KDE and start
shipping things built on Qt 4.5, we just can't justify waiting 9
months for something which is currently missing the very basic
features of a modern desktop, and which distributions are still
implementing odd hacks and workarounds and bundling ancient,
unmaintained software with (Qt3 ports..) until the status quo
improves.

I jumped up and down when Nokia announced they were buying Trolltech,
I love the new branding (makes it so much clearer than Trolltech's
previous branding mishap :) and the accelerated development, and the
new things happening in KDE development because of it. But they still
have a year to go before they really do something truly useful with it
all.

> complain, it´s probably sensible for Novell to focuse on one area in
> the proffesional market place , but it´s not in the interest of my
> employer.

Unfortunately even embedded Qt 4.x development is probably going to be
restricted until KDE matures, which is probably not to Nokia's liking,
but is just the facts of life here.

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations