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KDE Wins 3 awards

Posted by HeUnique on from the congratulations-to-kde-team dept.

Linux Journal has just posted who won its awards this time - and KDE got 3 of them: Konqueror, KDE-2, and KDevelop. Congratulations to the KDE team and to all their supporters.

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  1. Would be nice by datazone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would be nice if the editor showed which products he compared, and why the others did not get the award. and as far as the "Office Application
    " section goes, was he only comparing word processors? what about gnumeric? gnumeric 0.75 is at a point right now where its so sweet, it makes your teeth hurt. and did he even try galeon. as far as the browsing experience goes, its my opinion that galeon is much better designed to be a web browser.

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  2. Re:KDE is just a Windowsalike by loopkin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i disagree some 150%
    you want KDE look (and feel) like Mac ? enable Desktop menu, and remove taskbar.
    you want KDE look (and feel) almost like WindowMaker/Afterstep ? enable WindowMaker Applets extension, and remove taskbar

    the only thing you can't disable is the KParts/DCOP underlying system (well.. i think you can't). but i thought the aim of Linux on Desktop (which is the purpose of KDE), was to provide a component model implementation in order to allow high level interaction between applications (which is all the GNOME/KDE/GNUStep-WindowMaker projects do... using different languages, APIs, and having different set of features).
    sure, if you want less features and les memory usage, you can stick to old and light AfterStep or FVWM (though IceWM and others appear to be better)
    as for the binary size for KDE or problems of slow launching or whatever, one of the biggest problems of QT/KDE for the time being is that they are written in C++, and gcc is far from good at compiling C++ (which gave all the fuss about 2.96 and 3.x versions). usually distros don't even build kde using objprelink. wait a bit that all those things improve (and they are close to), and i think u'll see a great improvment in KDE performances.

  3. Re:But does it have to start that slow? by bero-rh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is related to the fact that the dynamic linker is slow when it comes down to resolving loads of C++ symnbols.
    It's a deficiency recent versions binutils fix - try the (WARNING: not yet 100% stable) stuff from rawhide.

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  4. Come on Guys! by Garfunkel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is this KDE centric?

    A lot of things won awards. Yes KDE won 3, and good for them. But why does the story only include the KDE part. All the other awardees were surely deserving too.

    So, I'm saying it. Caongratulations to ALL the entities who won awards from Linux Journal. You ALL deserve it. Keep up the good work!

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