-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2008-12-08 at 11:32 -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
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Further, it amazes me that the devs feel that KDE4 will be ready for SLE and I'm going to be interested to see the uptake and or skipping and or removal of SLE over this.
Yes, that's curious. I'm sure that has been a hard decision and much debated internally. They have the service packs, though.
Hmm... IIRC SLED is largely Gnome based (e.g. Evolution is gnome based, and OO is desktop agnostic). The media capabilities of KDE4 are probably inappropriate for a commercial environment anyway IMHO, and the potential retraining and associated costs will make KDE4 less attractive. People are paid to work for the business not browse media (unless their work is browsing media :-) ). Many corporate (and some educational) machines are tied to a corporate branded look and feel for non-IT workers. Large companies tend to be conservative about such features (which is one of the many areas Vista may have got it wrong). In the current economic climate utilitarian and low cost is good, fancy and expensive is not, and Gnome based Linux distros may have an edge here... What is also missed is that a primary consideration for many people who need a general purpose home computer in what they use at home is tied to what they use in the workplace or educational establishment. The real target to persuade is *not* the home user but the companies they work for or the relevant teaching bodies. Consumer use of Linux may increase as a consequence for this reason, I do not think KDE4 in itself will make that much impact outside the Linux community (especially if Windows 7 sorts out the Vista mess)... I am mainly underwhelmed by KDE4 because it really is a rehash of some 20 year old ideas. There is no doubting the technical skill and commitment of the KDE team in the implementation, but there is an underlying dressing up of yesterdays mutton as todays lamb in KDE4 (and Vista for that matter)... The Media orientated approach may be appropriate for the gadget generation when relative affluence was the norm, but may not fit the current situation. What are really needed are some new ideas... I you want to have a look and some things that have lot more potential than the standard thinking about the GUI interface (particularly for doing real work) the links below may give some starting points... http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrtfc/iv_links.htm http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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