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Gnome 2.4 Release (d)
chendo writes "Gnome 2.4 will be released today. Here is the link to the article on Ars Technica. GNOME 2.4 is the result of quite a bit of work toward complying with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), which mainly focus on user interface consistency and predictability. This release has also undergone some general polish, and it can finally be said that the GNOME 2 platform has achieved maturity with this release. The Epiphany web browser, a major new component of GNOME, also makes its debut with this release. (From Footnotes)"
KDE isnt doing much to their interface lately, although we can blame Xfree86 for not finishing up the SVG stuff, KDE is getting left in Gnomes dust right now.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
outside of going through the installer, something I'd probably f'up)?
-- I'm obviously smarter than you.
Maybe your not
I'm dead serious. It sucks.
Koffice was around before OpenOffice ever existed.
How sad, then, that it's as bad as it is? Perhaps they should consider abandoning it? No point in keeping it on life support for the sake thereof. Besides, it wasn't the first word processor or spreadsheet for linux, even if it beat OpenOffice. At some point, they decided to make a superfluous piece of software. KOffice isn't original. It's an uninspired and feature-poor clone, by today's standards or those of 5 years ago.
(ever saw the abomination that was StarOffice 5.1?).
Yep. It was horrible. KOffice now is worse.
Koffice has pretty much had less then 10 developers working part time on it as a hobby for 5 years
Then why make it a prominent part of KDE? First, it's a credibility thing - do you want your name associated with crappy software? Second, one would think those talented people could be used elsewhere on the KDE project. Or, if you *want* to make an office suite, devote people to it and *do it right*!
while SO/OOo has had many full time developers working on various parts of it since 1989.
Right, but you don't get to handicap the match. Users don't care. Bottom line is SO/OO has always been better than KOffice, and it still is. Furthermore, KOffice isn't narrowing the gap. It's a waste of time and effort that could be spent elsewhere.
There are obviously reasons to keep it around,
Not obvious to me. What reasons? Nostalgia? Humor? To make crappy programmers like me feel better?
in the same fashion that there are keep Epiphany or GNOME-office aroumd.
Now that's definitely nuts. That's the whole point - linux on the desktop might not be the fractured pile of crap that it is if we could get past the argument of "It couldn't hurt to devote a half-assed effort at this overly ambitious but impossibly undermanned project." It does hurt. It hurts the core project that doesn't improve at the rate it could.
Like gparent said, could we suspend work on another browser or office suite until PRINTING works right?
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Fucking christ. asobala already mentioned this. Asshole.
256mb of RAM should be fine. The difference in memory usage between a bare windowmaker desktop and a KDE one is about 60meg (~34meg -> ~90meg). That's worth about what, $20? Considering the vast amount of functionality that gives me, I think that's a worthwhile trade off.
And in the next Windows article, people will bitch about how much of a system hog XP is. I was running XP on 64MB of RAM last year just fine.
Slashdot double-standard #78,947.
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