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Five Years of KDE
Jacek Fedorynski writes: "Looks like KDE is five years old. Five years seems like a lot of time but just look how much they've achieved in this time." I think the hard part is just beginning - KDE has got all the basics down, and now they have to resist adding too much more crap.
Err, wrong. NT has no VMS code in it at all. Perhaps you're referring to the fact that Microsoft hired a number of big-time VMS developers to create NT? That would explain VMS-isms in NT, while supporting the fact that NT != VMS. As far as the acronym goes, that's pretty much BS (in the way that crap like numerology is BS. You can always come up with those types of "interesting" correlations that mean absolutely nothing). The company line on NT is that it has no meaning. It's simply the letters 'N' and 'T'. "New Technology" is something that the media dreamed up to assign meaning where there was none.
Kde 2.0 Release Announcement
KDE supports XDND and it _should_ be possible to drag-and-drop from and to GTK/GNOME applications. My .ogg's in Konqueror drop on xmms and its playlist just fine.
This is not a flame, not a troll, just the sad truth.
A point that needs to be raised is that all this was achieved in the face of possibly the nastiest episode in the history of free software; the FUD spread by GPL fanatics about the QT licence.
Gnome was founded by said fanatics for one reason and one reason only - to squash KDE, the best thing that had ever happened to desktop Linux. Microsoft must have been laughing their heads off...
And let's not forget that when Trolltech finally GPL'd the QT library RMS in one of the most arrogant pieces I've ever seen graciously granted "forgiveness" to the KDE team for unspecified breaches of the GPL that *may* have happened and then ended with "Go Gnome!.
Five years on KDE continues to bring out with almost military precision new releases. Despite vastly greater resources thrown at, Gnome 2.0x is as far off as ever, and Gnome remains a pretty but unstable desktop with some poorly-integrated GTK apps that have been retrospectively given the Gnome imprimateur.
Ironic, innit, that the only reason Gnome is still going is because the US suits who back it prefer LGPL to GPL - ie our noble FSF clacque who dumped on KDE using the GPL are quite happy to use a less free licence.
Anyway, as a usable desktop KDE is way out of front. Gnome is there for wannabe hackers who can't stomach the discipline of C++ and ideological fanatics. And those who want to stay in the perfection of eternal beta-land.
KDE shows what can be done with limited resources and a proper design and project plan
GNOME shows what happens when large amounts of resources are pissed up against the wall to make up for lack of said design and project planning.
KDE = Konqueror
GNOME = Mozilla
KDE = results
GNOME = vapourware
In six years microsoft have gone from NT 4 to windows XP. It's not a particularly big jump in terms other than hardware support.
I read an interview that the name NT actually shorthand used by Microsoft developers for N-10, the codename for the Intel i860 (the RISC CPU for which Windows NT was orignally written).
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Or, rather, to use the same 5 year timespan, in 5 years, Microsoft went from Windows 95 to WindowsXP. That is a huge leap in terms of stability and security (both up) and boot time (down).
In 5 years they went from Windows 95 to Windows ME (not XP - that's 6 years), stability of ME, at least on my machine is a lot worse (in fact it's so unstable it's what finally drove me to install Linux), and I shudder to think what boot time would be on the same hardware I had back then (486/66).
>. For example, in KDE, I can't rearrange the key
>mappings to launch a terminal when I press C-A->t.
You've not really used KDE then have you - just messed around with it a little.
You use KMenuEdit to assign keys to applications. It uses KHotkeys - which in 2.2.x is unfortunately buggy - as soon as you use Ctrl and Alt keys, it wipes out other keystrokes of the same keys - ie, assigning alt+F1 will produce the same action as pressing F1.