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KDE Gets The Hat

Posted by michael on from the kat-in-the-hat dept.

minkwe writes "Tension is currently rising between the KDE and GNOME followers, following the release of the new beta to Red Hat's upcoming distribution. Neither group appears to be satisfied with the fact that Red Hat has null-ified the difference between the two desktop environments."

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  1. bah by Vodak · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I like gnome better then KDE and I think it's a LOW blow from Redhat to play these games. Microhat needs to stop playing games.

  2. Slashdotted, but GNOME2 *is* leagues better by Sleepy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Grrr... can't read the article.

    I know this will annoy KDE supporters to no end, but I always liked the KDE (Qt) widgets, but not necessarily the KDE desktop.

    This is why even when I went through my "KDE phase", I ran almost 100% GNOME apps. GNOME apps seem to be much more developed and popular... perhaps at the expense of GNOME 1.x desktop development? The long incubation period of GNOME2 explains a lot...

    I am running RH 7.4 B2. I know Beta 3 is out.

    I find some things are broken in Beta 2, but GNOME2 is still a huge jump over GNOME 1.4 it isn't even funny. Remember that most GNOME users DON'T run XIMIAN (OK, this is a guess), so they've been stuck on this ancient GNOME1.x codebase that Red Hat never updated.

    I know plenty of developers who use GTK 1.x out of licensing issues, when they openly admire Qt but can't touch it. I imagine the improvements in GTK might not erase all of those Qt advantages, but surely it will make a dent. GNOME2 in my opinion has leapfrogged people's expectations.

    With a better widget set, and a better desktop infrastructure, we should really see some major Linux application development.

    Now what we REALLY need is some friendly cooperation, like along the lines of look & feel, inter-desktop drag and drop, etc.

  3. Re:screenshots by inkfox · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Sorry - but - I understand the advantage (for RedHat) of branding. But what's the point of uglifying the rest?

    Is the Gnome desktop that ugly with RedHat?

    This seems like a pitifully inept job, if not downright malicious. KDE and Gnome both look pretty slick in their default installs under other distributions. Why the difference?

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