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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. About that hat by DotComVictim · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does it support transparency, anti-aliased logos and gradient shading now... that's a pretty fancy hat.

  2. So what? by keesh · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:So what? by Surak · · Score: 5, Funny

      And C is better than C++, K&R is the 1TBS, csh is better than bash, Solaris is dead, RISC sucks, Amigas are for wannabes, Radeon kicks GeForce's ass, RMS is 10x the programmer Linus is, Linux sucks because its monolithic, and MySQL isn't viable for a production environment because it doesn't make good use of multithreads.

      Hacker Tourette's Syndrome. :) I love it. :)

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    2. Re:So what? by JanneM · · Score: 4, Funny
      And Evil programmers use 3-space tabs to confuse everyone.

      /Janne

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  3. Re:screenshots by anakog · · Score: 5, Funny
    From screenshot #7:

    GNOME is a powerfull, graphical user interface which includes a panel, desktop, system icons, and a graphical file manager.

    KDE is a powerfull, graphical user interface which includes a panel, desktop, system icons, and a graphical file manager.

    It seems that Red Hat have indeed gone through a great deal of effort to conceal the differences between KDE and GNOME.

  4. Re:choice / customization is a *GOOD* thing by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is far too reasonable of a response. Who are you and what are you doing posting on slashdot?

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  5. Well now wait a doggone minute... by quiklilo71 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:screenshots by RickHunter · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.)

  7. Re:OK.... focusing on just the themes by unsinged+int · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um...you mean RMS. You linked to a Slashdot article about RMS suggesting KDE and Gnome collaborate.