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UserLinux May Go Without KDE
Anonymous BillyGoat writes "For the past few days, there has been considerable debate at the UserLinux mailing list about the (proposed) non-inclusion of KDE in the distro. The KDE developers have written a proposal opposing the decision to go with GNOME as the sole UserLinux GUI, while Bruce Perens has posted a response."
Now that KDE has added "accessibility", a bunch of cripples and retards are going to be using it.
I'm sure UserLinux doesn't want to be associated with that kind of end user.
GNOME = luser KDE = user There's no way around it.
...is like going to war with France without the Germans.
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
And Qt is made by Trolltech.
And Trolltech is part of the Canopy Group.
Which pulls SCO strings.
Do we need the threat of more lawsuits in the future?
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Perens and his cohorts are applying the rules of communist economics to this projects requirements. How many of the end users they hope for are participating in this requirements and design phase?
Why even bother calling it USER Linx?
They should take a look at how a good project involves it's target users. http://www.intellij.net
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BFD
who will use loserlinux anyway?
what will it provide that all the other don't, other than a single fascist dictator at the top?
Ever since Gnome 2.4 was released, I have found more and more gnome zealots
/gnu/celeron
who MUST absolutely advocate GNOME at every possible moment. Here is a guide
to some of their claims, and what they really mean.
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell
and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now
that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under
corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with
your source code.
Nautilus is much better than konqueror.
Wrong, if your using nautilus for anything more than a simple finder clone you
can forget it. No split screen, no ioslaves and forget about being able to
have a decent file dialog, not to forget that it is as unstable as hell and is
STILL slow on >3 Ghz machines.
Gnome is easier to use
Yep, nothing like using gconf-editor to edit all except the most trivial of
settings. Want tear off menus? Want a useable file dialog? You won't find it
here.
Gnome has eye candy
Yes, my pirated Win32 fonts with the patent infringing font renderer. Bit
stream vera sans looks like Tahoma put through a shreadder! Of course I still
reboot into windows to print using "Comic Sans MS.
Gnome has a new web browser
Yawb! Along with Galeon, mozilla, thunderbird, konqueror, atlantis, lynx,
netscape and w3m. Yes I need another browser! Not to mention that its got a
religiously offensive name and it dosen't allow bookmark folders. It also
crashes like a crazy! Apple chose khtml for a REASON! its stable and light!
For newbies, Gnome is the ideal choice
Despite the fact that the only mainstream Gnome based distro has been EOL'd,
and all the newbie distros such as Mangadrake, Lindoze, $u$E, Lycoris,
Xandroze, Gentoo use kde default, the Local unix geek showed me Debian, which
installed Gnome 1.4 by default, so it must be good if he uses it.
You KDE guys must be sick of the K
Our G's and monkeys are SO MUCH better, gedit, glib, gconf, bobono, ghex,
gless, same-gnome.
Gnome is themeable
Yep, choose from High, low and medium contrast, default, and clean ice. Wan't
to change the colour scheme? USE GCONF NOOB, plus if you complain about it we
will tell you to fuck off and go back to Windows or KDE.
Gnome has multimedia framework
Its a kludge of esd combined with broken xine libraries. No wonder it crashes
all the time and dosen't work on 95% of video files
My Gnome work station
My 1.1Ghz Packard Bell box my mum bought for me from PC world, that is made of
made to break components, but it has a GEFORCE RADEON 9000 card, so it must be
good.On the other hand, no-one (well, nearly no-one) is suggesting that GTK+
is a replacement for Qt...
Gnome allows mac like operation.
We have a shameless expose ripoff, with a cheezy name. Next thing you know we
will scrap the panel for a cheezy dock clone. Despite the fact that x86
compatible 1 button mice are almost impossible to find, and it dosen't copy
the whole macbar concept. Our auto apply implementation is broken and
dangerous, but you can always use gconf like a real geek.
Gnome is GNU software.
gnu/Yay, gnu/gnome gnu/for gnu/my gnu/debian gnu/linux gnu/500mhz
gnu/packard gnu/bell gnu/box.
Inspired by the gentoo translate-o-matic. Written using Kate on KDE 3.1.4
I use KDE all day, every day, for my job. I see no crashes. Ever.
Why don't you go make up lies about my mother, while you are at it?
Many pharisee's still view KDE as an invitation to legality in the enterprise since Troll tech just might make their toolkit non gpl.
Everything has been cleared now but there are still some freaks out there.
http://saveie6.com/
I can't contain 2 fat A-S-S in my Linux's box.
The loser is KDE and the loser is GNOME.
The winner is fluxbox.
Why?
Because it is smaller, quicker, easyier, .. and is wanted by the people.
open4free
Perhaps these Photoshop users are simply more adept with one finger over the other?
Or do the "static" menus in Photoshop magically appear in response to the thought processes of highly trained Windows mouse jockeys, entirely apart from having to STILL CLICK TO ACCESS THE CONTENTS OF THE MENU?
You know, you're a fucking pretentious prick.
Why is it that 90% of "professional" Photoshop users who post on Slashdot fall into this category?