KDE & Gnome Usability Engineers Interviewed

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."

Comments

Useability Engineer?

[theGreater]

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.

Re:As long as the result isn't Knome...

[supergiovane]

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

Re:Sigh..

[addaon]

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]