GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released

BSD Forums writes "The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is now available. FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke has ported this release (2.3) on FreeBSD and is looking for your testing help. Also, the KDE Project announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.2, a maintenance release for the third generation of this UNIX desktop."

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I had no idea....

[frodo from middle ea]

I was reading all tha anti-radhat commotions regarding KDE and frankly I never understood what the fuss was all about.
But now that i switched to gentoo (this is not ment to be gentoo praise), i finally realise how much can i customise KDE.
But then again i am not sure if RH crippled KDE enough to be non-customisable.
ROCK on KDE.

Re:I had no idea....

[Kesha]

Yeah, I was not sure either. I've been a RedHat user almost from the start (RH 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3). I hand built KDE-3.1 on RedHat 7.3 from CVS, and was happy with it.

A while ago I upgraded to RH9, nearly tore my hair out after seeing what they did to KDE, and promptly switched to SuSE 8.2 professional (plus got a cool T-shirt from SuSE).

I have long ago decided that if the stories are true I would let my wallet speak for me, and I believe RedHat 7.3 was the last RedHat I will ever have paid for. I am a SuSE user from now on. I wish RedHat better luck with GNOME, but I have made my choice, and it is KDE. Honestly, I wish RedHat would not support KDE at all instead of making changes to it that will never be accepted back into the KDE source tree, it's just a waste of effort that could be better spent on GNOME.

Paul.

Re:I had no idea....

[Ed Avis]

I am currently a Mandrake user, but next time I upgrade I will probably go to Red Hat. They seem to be the only distribution making a serious effort to integrate the software they provide, rather than just pulling a bunch of packages off the net and installing them in /usr/. I don't care about ideological purity of 'the KDE environment' or 'the GNOME environment'. What matters is having all the applications work consistently together, and if Red Hat is prepared to kill a few sacred cows to do it, good luck to them.

KDE obnoxious bug still in 3.1.2

[mfago]

UI wars aside, KDE 3.1.2 still has an obnoxious bug. Please vote and/or comment at the given link.

KDE is IMHO awesome, but its habit of automatically switching focus to error dialogs on another desktop is driving me insane. Especially since, statistics aside, the switcheroo invaribly happens when I'm writing a Slashdot post, and in my furor hit "enter" just as a warning dialog comes up.

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Just another 2 minutes that I should have been writing my thesis.

Gnome 3

[DeadBugs]

I am glad to see Gnome has not bowed to market pressure and released the latest version as Gnome 3.

Unlike Mandrake 9 and MSN 8. None of which had version 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc. They just upped the numbers to match their competitor. (RedHat 9, AOL 8).

Re:Desktop war in news?

[einhverfr]

Here are the basic considerations:

1: You should install both if at all possible. There is a large and growing level of interop between the two libraries, and some of the GNOME applications are extremely advanced and powerful (Gnumeric, Evolution, etc.) Also KDE has many applications, so you may want to use them. And if you have both installed, you can use KDE apps on GNOME and vice versa.

2: As for which one to use, I think you should evaluate both. Gnome 2.x and Kde3.1.x are both very mature and useable desktops.

Here is what I would do. I would take 10 employees that seem of typical skill, set up GNOME and KDE on systems, and ask them to evaluate their uses.

One think I will say as a network admin, though is that once the LDAP backend is completed for GCONF, that will be very helpful for network support. Of course until it exists, treat it as vaporware, and judge based upon the current capabilities, not the promised future.