Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 23:30 -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
On 11/4/05, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 04 November 2005 23:23, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Friday 04 November 2005 19:46, DC Parris wrote:
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."
Disappointing indeed. Why would they do that?
Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza the Ximian Gnome Monkies who are highups in the Linux part of the company.. why else? Oh.. they also want to be " just like Redhat " in this respect. I'll bet they did some customer survey and quite a few asked about Gnome. It's all about the marketing.. don't you know. ;D
It might also have something to do with gnome seeming to be less demanding on the system than KDE. While I try and figure out why 9,3 is slow on my system, I've been using gnome. It doesn't fly, but unlike KDE the system is usable without having the time to make and drink a coffee between starting an app and being able to use it.
Mike -- note this is my current experience, not an invitation to start a flamer about gui's
Financial suicide. Please see my earlier posts about gnome and SuSE x86_64, basically it doesn't work. There are bugs in it which mean that gnome hogs 100% CPU - this has been reported, has been known about for months, and yet nothing happens. As soon as I switched to KDE I could use my machine. Now personally I like the clean interface of Gnome, but it seems like a lot more time and effort is put into making KDE stable (if a bit slow). Hopefully there will be a U-turn soon, or I will be dropping SuSE from all our machines. Best wishes, Jon.