On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:26 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:20 -0500, Allen wrote:
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:40:21AM +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote:
On Saturday 05 November 2005 09:23, Bryan Tyson wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1882118,00.asp This article contains a very disappointing piece of news:
"Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME." Incredible. They are stupid enough to screw their own customers. This will probably have a drastic influence on their current popularity.
Yea I mean wow those mean mean guys, now you have to click on KDE before hitting enter after typing your password. And then YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON SET AS DEFAULT for GDM.... Wow, rough times..... *Sigh*.
I was going to stay out of this one, but...
Do you really think SUSE will invest as much time in honorable desktop #2 as they will in desktop #1? I bet things for KDE will lag. This has already started with beagle, which is much more integrated into gnome than kde. It is a simple matter of resources. If SUSE had equal resources for both gnome and kde, there would have been no need for any announcement. The announcement pretty much indicates one desktop will get the emphasis. Anyone who does software development knows what that means.
KDE-4.0 pre-release reviews indicate major improvements including beagle, so the show is not over yet. Regards Sid.
Throwing my $.02 in - I have never been really happy with the whole KDE / Gnome thing. Gnome has always been - imo - ugly and not user-friendly, while at the same time being almost as resource-hungry as KDE. If I want to loose the eye-candy, I'll IceWM or Flux or...
The whole reason, IIRC, that Miguel decided to abandon KDE and write his own desktop was becasue of licencing - which is long since resolved. I remember firing up Gnome on my Mandrake 6.1 system and immediately going back to KDE.
That said, I just wish each distro would simply settle on one - or at least build wrappers - so that we could have a consistent look/feel. I absoltely hate using the dialog boxes in any GTK+ app - most horrible is that awful file open in GIMP.
Start of vent: Which is also in Evolution. The previous one was much better. I think the new file dialog shows a lack of any testing on real humans. If that is the file dialog of the future, well, I for one am not impressed. Unless the look 'n feel was mean to be some retro doodad that was the hallmark of the bad old days in Unix GUI land. Perhaps, if SUSE stayed with KDE and still did not make headway into the desktop, they would have to fine something to blame. I think the move to GNOME is a preemptive action. Now they have a bonafide reason the desktop will fail. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. -- Roger