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gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba
Deusy writes "Footnotes is running an update article on gDesklets, Gnome's answer to KDE's Karamba. I've heard a lot of noise with regards to Karamba (and Super Karamba) and a lot of moans from Gnome users about the lack of a Gnome equivalent. Hopefully this should fill that void and more, as one of the developers comments that gDesklets is the product of "months of planning" and describes Karamba as an "ugly hack"."
talk about flamebait
GNOME seems to be more popular though, what are some of the biggest differences, Gnome doesn't have it own window manager right?
1. Copy KDE
2. ?
3. Profit !
Hello,
Consulting for several large companies, I'd always done my work on
Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do
some work using Linux. The concept of having access to source code was
very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our
exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several technical challenges along the way
(specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we
were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process
went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were
considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that
we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It
was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something
called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license
states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available.
Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money
we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would
now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any
products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever
use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult
position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with
another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no
option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive
with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually
guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my
experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my
associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to
something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source".
Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure
it remains only a bit player.
Thank you for your time.
Looks like another example of a project which should use xml for its configuration files, but instead uses a proprietary format...
The X-based desktop manager known as Gnome which many thought has long died, makes a barely noticable comeback by implementing an eyecandy which has been used by the KDE folks since half a year ago.
Come on, don't beat dead horses... just let Gnome decompose its stinking carcass in peace already. Even the minimalist Fluxbox can beat Gnome in terms of usability and eyecandy anyday.
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More popular? Show me one user poll showing that. Not even among developers.
I only quoted the guy, there was no intention to start a flame war.
It wasn't obvious that it was tongue-in-cheek. A smiley... that could mean a hundred different things.
Perhaps the developer who made the comment should have been a little more careful about making comments that could be construed as flames on the tone-deaf medium such as the internet.
Hell, it's not like I could hear the sarcasm in his voice.
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