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Red Hat Explains Stance on KDE/Gnome Desktop Changes

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Re:screens pls! by inc_x · · Score: 0, Troll
    Actually they very hard tried to get rid of KDE a few years ago but that move wasn't a very successfull business strategy because Mandrake started to offer RedHat+KDE which caused a rather dramatic drop in RedHat's market share.

    So RedHat removed its "We can't ship KDE because it is illegal" rant from their webpage and included KDE from that point on.

  2. Re:Unified Desktop by rseuhs · · Score: 2, Troll
    I would have done what every commercial Linux distribution except RedHat does:

    Install KDE by default but include Gnome in the distribution for those who want it.

    What's wrong with that?

    The reason RedHat pushes Gnome is just politics and stubbornness.

    But it's OK, it's their distribution, so why not install Gnome by default and include KDE in the distribution?

    Would still be better than such a half-assed desktop mixture.

    PS: You can't "take the best of both and integrate them into a single desktop" because KDE is written in C++/Qt and Gnome in C/GTK. Those don't mix. If they would mix, such a merger would have happened a long time ago.