On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

"I'm just happy we picked one [desktop]. It makes no sense to support two desktops that do the same thing when you're trying to cut costs." - Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's director of marketing for Linux

I have a hard time reading much else into that statement.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/66068

On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

I will have to say this. After poking around in the GNOME a bit to see if it provides the same level of functionality as the KDE I have concluded that it does not, and in a big way. I'm not going to get into details, but there are features in the KDE that are simply better than their GNOME counterparts.

That is the advantage of having a choice. Different people do things differently. I have been playing around with KDE since I first started using SuSE, and every time I go back to GNOME of XFCE. It is not that KDE is bad or anything (KDE is a good desktop environment), but I just like the way that GNOME does things and there are certain functionality in GNOME that I cannot get in KDE. It is probably there, but not in the format or way that I am used to. I guess one gets used to a certain way that things are done and then you stick with it. But this does not make any other tool bad. The other tools cater for other people. If everybody used the same desktop environment, then we would be back in the Windows world where we don't have a choice. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:41 am, Andre Truter wrote:

On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

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"I'm just happy we picked one [desktop]. It makes no sense to support two desktops that do the same thing when you're trying to cut costs." - Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's director of marketing for Linux

I have a hard time reading much else into that statement.

From which article does that come? Where can I read it? In which context was it said? When did he say that?

http://www.google.com/

On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

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From which article does that come? Where can I read it? In which context was it said? When did he say that?

http://www.google.com/

The only hits that Google give me on that are articles that actually state that opposite. Yes, theya re going to focus the enterprise products on GNOME, but it will still include KDE and OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux will still have KDE as a desktop. I fail to see how you got to your conclusion that SUSE is dropping KDE development support or even KDE support in general from any of the articles I could find. But I see that Peter posted links to articles that clears up the matter. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~