On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Basil Chupin
Can anyone provide an answer, please, to what the future of KDE is considering that gnome has gone #3 but will not be used in such a distro as Ubuntu, to be replaced by Unity. And I don't know what the future holds for openSUSE.
Gnome is still basically the desktop in Ubuntu. The Shell is now Unity instead of the Gnome 3 shell. see: http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Gnome_Shell_vs_Unity It's still gtk+ underneath. Plus, you can change to Gnome Shell fairly easily in 11.04 from what I have read.
What's the future of KDE in openSUSE, will it remain and be in place for at least several years or be replaced with something like Unity or Gnome #3 in the foreseeable future or within 6 months time (whichever comes first)? (Reason for asking is that I don't want to invest time and effort in getting KDE in 11.4 configured only to find that KDE will be replaced with something as unproductive as gnome 3 or Unity.)
KDE has been the main desktop in openSUSE/S.u.S.E. since like v5.x, so I doubt they are planning to move away from it at all. Especially with all the work that's went into KDE4. KDE3 -> KDE4 was more of a change than Unity/Gnome Shell. KDE4 adopted qt4 which is a completely re-written lib system while both Unity/Gnome Shell use GTK+ just like LXDE and Xfce. At least that's how I understand it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org