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KDE & Gnome Usability Engineers Interviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the talking-with-the-men-with-the-plan dept.

Gentu writes "After the recent flamewar between the KDE and Gnome user camps, OSNews brings together the most influencial KDE and Gnome usability engineers to talk about how they will be able to overcome a number of obstacles in order to 'unify' KDE and Gnome in ways that could bring to the Unix desktop an easy to use, integrated and fully interoperated DE to better compete with the commercial alternatives. Waldo from SuSE and Havoc from Red Hat are taking part to the interview, and also Aaron, the head of KDE's usability."

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  1. As long as the result isn't Knome... by Kjella · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I'm happy. Even Bluecurve sounded better ;)

    Kjella

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    1. Re:As long as the result isn't Knome... by supergiovane · · Score: 5, Funny
      If you want, you can try my Kremoveinitial, a very useful utility which removes the K initial from every KDE app on your disk.

      Disclaimer: it's still beta and very buggy, but in case of necessity

      ill -9 kremoveinitial

      should solve any problem

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    2. Re:As long as the result isn't Knome... by grahamlee · · Score: 2, Funny
      He thought using only _one_ letter to brand was silly

      You know, I've spoken to people who think it iWorks.

    3. Re:As long as the result isn't Knome... by Arandir · · Score: 2, Funny

      I hope GNU drops that whole G-naming gimmick. Although I love GNU, and I use it every day, it's the one thing that I find downright irritating.

      So, I plea to everyone that develops new GNU apps, _DON'T_ use that silly G-ism shtick. It was fun the first two versions. It's getting old. Be original for a change, okay? Thanks.

      gcc, gdb, gimp, glibc, gnats, gnome, gnotepad, grub, gnumeric, gnupg, gnustep, gphoto, grep, groff, gtk, guile, gzip, getc, getc, getc.

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  2. Useability Engineer? by theGreater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, I love the titles we're given these days. Currently I'm a Senior in a Computer Science program... but really, I think I should get a raise and the new title "Education Subscriber" or maybe "Learning Engineer".

    Is this type of deal limited only to the Tech Sector, or is everybody throwing about hyphens and "Engineer" to make people sound more important?

    Other good tack-on words I can think of would be associate (no, that's not the Fry Cook, that's our Comestibles Associate), analyst (hey, I'm not a waitress, I'm an Order Analyst), and vice president (no, I'm not the bus boy, I'm the VP of Table Maintenence).

    -theGreater Cynic.

  3. Fight it out by patch-rustem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gnome wins!

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  4. Re:Sigh.. by addaon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, except that it makes sense that some people might want to use KDE, and some might want to use GNOME. What possible justifaction is there for emacs? [ducks]

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  5. Re:Sigh.. by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the parent post:
    but users get very angry in the same way we have perl/python/ruby wars, emacs/vi, debian/redhat/suse/mandrake/slackware/whatever wars....

    The article said something about Havoc frome RedHat. Now if RedHat would stop spreading Havoc, maybe we would be better off ;-)

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  6. Re:Interoperability is king by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    we feel it's a hack for C to help make OO programming available

    Funny, that about describes my feelings toward C++ ;^)