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UserLinux May Go Without KDE

Posted by michael on from the can't-have-any-pudding dept.

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."

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  1. Re:KDE is not to be ignored by TrekCycling · · Score: 1, Troll

    Bingo. I may be biased as a Gnome user that appreciates that Gnome just works, doesn't crash (admit it, if you've used KDE or QT apps you've seen the crashes, I have) and is simple. It's a window manager, not a platform. Linux is the platform. The apps are what I use. I just want my desktop to manage files a little, let me organize some folders and otherwise just manage windows. Gnome does this well and keeps getting faster and better at it. Gnome 2.4 rocks. Not everyone wants all the options KDE provides. There are plenty of distros that offer both.

  2. KDE is dying by yeremein · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered KDE community when recently it was learned that UserLinux may not be including their desktop. Coming on the heels of the news of Novell's acquisition of Ximian and then SuSE, a once KDE-centric distro, KDE will lose more market share as SuSE switches to Ximian's GNOME desktop. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict KDE's future. The hand writing is on the wall: KDE faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for KDE because KDE is dying.

  3. Force them to use only Emacs by axxackall · · Score: 0, Troll
    would be like only including VI and not Emacs (or Emacs and not VI), and forcing all users to use one.

    Forcing users to use only Emacs and not VI is The Good Thing (TM). VI should be dead together with Assembly language both are too primitive for modern tasks (but both still can be used for very specific tasks).

    The comparison is not correct since both KDE and GNOME are not primitive (well, GNOME is better and more power and more applications, but this remark about GNOME is my personal opinion).

    --

    Less is more !
  4. Leadership by DuncanE · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bruce Perens has displayed excellent leadership here. Which is what many open source projects lack.

    I just dont understand why various comments try to defend KDE. QT has at its core a model that is not open. If you can accept this then why arn't you using OSX or Windows?

    The mailing list had a great discusion amongst some highly knowledgeable people on this topic and then the leader made "the right choice". It makes me thing that UserLinux may really be the desktop linux distribution it has set out to be.

    I dont why we feel we can comment at all really. But then I dont know why Im reading the comments either!... or why I'm making this post!!.... oooohhhh head .... exploding.....