On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 17:24 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Friday 11 November 2005 15:23, Rafa Grimán wrote:
- all those of us that NEED KDE: it will STILL ne there
KDE will still be included. Fine.
But will it get the same attention and _funding_ from SUSE as it used to? Considering that a lot of KDE development is being sponsored by SUSE, would you be willing to believe that this support is not going to cease sometime in the future, sooner or later?
Based on http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2142 , I don't think so. It seems like Novell investors are pushing for standardization, and Novell has chosen to focus on GNOME. If Novell changed its mind to focus on KDE, I think they would have to sell Ximian.
Yeah, you'll have KDE in SUSE. But what if it's not KDE as we know it? Less financial support means slower development, less bug fixing, KDE will lag behind.
It also sounds like that Novell has told SUSE to rely on the community (i.e., opensuse) for future KDE development, thus leading in part to the culture clash described in the article. Mantel's departure hasn't helped either (the article contrasts Mantel with "Ximian knuckle-draggers")
And it seemed that it really had a shot, with qt4 and x.org transparency, KDE4 would kick ass. Vista ass. Can you picture Gnome being able to do that? I seriously doubt that.
Fedora has shown that a community can push Red Hat in certain directions. But even if the opensuse community is able to organize to push SUSE to advance KDE, the results may be rather messy.
I'd be very glad to be wrong about this.
Me too.