On Saturday 09 June 2012 22:33:16 Nelson Marques wrote:
s/KDE/GNOME/g
I like GNOME3. I *use* GNOME3. But I don't see a huge difference between a Fedora GNOME3 and an openSUSE GNOME3. I think an openSUSE KDE can be sigificantly better than Fedora's KDE or Ubuntu's KDE, if only because of the geographic proximity of some of the core team members of the two projects.
99% of the universe still refuses to understand that GNOME3 isn't only about the shell, but it's also a transiction from a traditional code stack in C that now has a potent set of bindings to other high level languages (python, java, etc).
Now this creates a lot more of possibilities for new people to enroll, specially those who don't give a damn about low level stuff and only want to get their applications. Look... What is easier to refactore, low level C or python?
If you are skeptical... Do you see Canonical or Mint doing deep core stuff? ;) Looks like they were the ones with the brains... while all the others are just following God knows what...
There's also some core "semantic desktop" functionality (Nepomuk) in KDE that hasn't been surpassed IMHO by anything GNOME, Unity, MATE or Cinnamon have to offer. I don't think you can even get this on Windows or a Mac - I've run that by the Nepomuk team and they say it's a lot of engineering work.
KDE is nice, and my intention isn't to tackle KDE... it's just claiming that GNOME has no place on a visible openSUSE it the worst attrocity someone can do. I saw too many people looking forward to vaporize GNOME2 out of the map... I hope it's clear now that was a huge mistake... openSUSE is a dead stick if it doesn't change... people need to be bald and agressive to move openSUSE into the highlights... KDE isn't going to do that for us ;)
Nobody is - unless we can put in significant effort in one or the other desktop, it doesn't matter much and we better stick with both. IF we would be capable of doing something akin to what Ubuntu used to do to GNOME (before Unity), either to GNOME or KDE - then, yes, focus would be nice. But until that day we should keep the choices close to the users. Imho :D