Red Hat Explains Stance on KDE/Gnome Desktop Changes

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 16, 2002 @01:34AM from the creating-unity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A lot of people are angry over the changes RedHat has done to KDE and Gnome in their latest beta, code-named Null. They have basically "nullified" all the default themes and settings with which each desktop attempts to posture for more users. Instead, there is now a beautiful unified look. To explain RedHat's stance, Owen Taylor writes this piece here. I hope that RedHat successfully forces both Gnome and KDE to become compatible with one another which would result in the creation of a single desktop. This would be the greatest gift to the Linux world."

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now all we need is a real replacement for X. by smcavoy · 2002-09-16 02:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I use Linux at home as my primary desktop (20 days average uptime before I feel the need to play a game that works in windows only), and at work for my desktop and 40+ servers. I like X's networking capabilities but the fact is it's old and bloated.
We need something new/better. Hiding X from Joe user is pretty tough. Having something like direct FB as the backend would make it easier to use for end users, and probably clear up a load of performance issues as well...