On Monday 05 March 2007, Russell Jones wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
I remember thinking that the Gnome group were a bunch of whining children about the whole idea and that creating a second desktop would do more overall harm than good.
Rather than concentrate on writing a replacement for the one part of KDE that wasn't totally free (QT) they set out to rebuild the world but without a blueprint or even a coherent plan. The internals of Gnome are a mess.
So you don't disagree with their objectives or objections, just the way they went about it?
I'm never opposed to anyone spending their time on alternative solutions if that is what they wanted to do. I would have expected something BETTER THAN what whey were trying to replace to come out of such a project, but in every case, with the possible exception of Evolution, everything out of the Gnome project is patently and obviously inferior to KDE in my opinion. Was it devicive? Probably, but only due to the way they went about it. They never were about creating anything better, more imaginative or extensible. It was always ONLY about snubbing Trolltech. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen