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KDE Gets The Hat
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."
So does it support transparency, anti-aliased logos and gradient shading now... that's a pretty fancy hat.
KDE sucks anyway. Oh, and Vim is better than Emacs, Java is a dead buzzword, PHP is far too slow to use in a production environment, Python is for hippies, Perl 6 is massively outclassed by Ruby, *BSD is dying, OS X is just eyecandy, Mozilla is a buggy piece of shit and spaces are better than tabs.
Command-line console utilities and the various shells are still far from perfection... so why are all of the lemmings moving to GUIs? They're just slow and inefficent anyway! NeWS was bad, X11 is worse. Windows and Mac OS are even less flexible.
If you have to make an X app, please do us all a favor and use "clean" straight xlib, stay away from the bloat of Motif, GTK, and Qt.
Vim is not better than Emacs!!!
No, seriously, I just come here for the articles.
Neither group appears to be satisfied with th fact that Red Hat has null-ified the difference between the two desktop environments.
I wonder how they feel about having their server null-ified by shashdot?
It seems that Red Hat have indeed gone through a great deal of effort to conceal the differences between KDE and GNOME.
This is far too reasonable of a response. Who are you and what are you doing posting on slashdot?
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Who really cares? The desktop wars are always fun, it pushes all products to "Excel" or change thier "Outlook." Heck I'm not making a "Powerpoint", I'm just stating the facts. Competition is good for linux, it pushes us to open new "windows" and grow. This is evident in the way open source coverage has grown "XP"ediately in media coverage lately. You mark my "Word", it does not matter; KDE or Gnome, which ever product continues to "Project" themselves forward with quality features, smooth intergration and stable ease of use; that will dominate the desktop.
Err... I don't see what all the fuss is about. Screenshots 1-16 are GNOME and 17-20 are KDE. Its not like they've mushed the two together, and its not like there's no differences between them. They don't even have the same window decorations! Sure, the panels look a bit similar, and GNOME's been made up to look a bit like KDE. Big deal - they're both themable desktops. You can change how they look.
Oh, and the RedHat package tool in #7 looks a bit familiar to users of Windows. From the screenshots, this is not a bad thing - the UI looks much better than previous versions of said tool.
So could someone please explain to me what the issue is here? (The gnomedesktop article seems to be down, so I can't seen the original source.)
But people who don't even know about this might not realize something they couldn't care less about! Not that the UI has anything at all to do with the big picture, except for it work and be easy to use, but for not being a purist, you should be ashamed of your self.
I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, and I don't even know how what I said could possibly make any sense. But apparently it makes sense to some people. Or maybe I'm mistaken over the whole thing.
Danish != nationality
Um...you mean RMS. You linked to a Slashdot article about RMS suggesting KDE and Gnome collaborate.
Or should we call it GDE?
l lustrator
Here's my list of favorite apps:
Gonqueror
Gapital
Kimp
Knumeric
Knucash
Gi
Gword
Kaleon
Givio