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UserLinux Will Support KDE

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thank-goodness-for-that dept.

kollum writes "Bruce Perens has revealed that UserLinux will now support KDE commercially. It seems there is a demand for a KDE plan afterall."

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  1. Makes good business sense... by bc90021 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...and I quote:

    "I already have a customer asking for Perens LLC to provide commercial support for KDE on the UserLinux platform. And we will do so, even though KDE is not the chosen GUI of the UserLinux project. This is an
    option for any UserLinux service provider."

    So, in other words, if your customers want it, you should provide it. Makes sense to me. ;)

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  2. Choice is good... by _Pinky_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thats the one driving force, even above open source, that I think pulls people to GNU/Linux...

    I mean people clammer about window manager themes almost as much as the window managers themselves...

    Think of the solitary driving force, it's choice... Even as far to the point where if you don't like a certain aspect of a piece of software you can look at the source and change it...

    So, to exclude any piece of software would, at heart, be hypocritical, given the open source method.

    Just my two cents as a staunch Gnome user...

  3. Re:Perens LLC, not UserLinux by manyoso · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... which completely breaks Bruce's latest rationale for excluding KDE in the first place:

    "it's just too hard to support both..."

    also throws some cold water on the other ridiculous rationales he uses from time to time, depending upon if the mood suits him:

    "Qt can't support a coveted cottage industry of proprietary developers..."

    yah, well, except for the current 'cottage industry' that overwhelmingly has chosen Qt for commercial development...

    so Bruce's is left with one rationale for his decision to exclude KDE from the default of UL:

    "I've already made the choice ... inertia"

  4. To many toolkits! by BillyBlaze · · Score: 5, Interesting
    UserLinux is showing us that it's not yet possible to make a Linux distro with fewer than two GUI toolkits. Actually more, when you figure in FLTK, Motif, XAW, XUL, FOX and so on. This wastes disk space, memory, and developer time, and the end result is an inconsistent GUI with no single place to change the look-n-feel.

    I think what Linux on the Desktop needs is something just like X, but with server-side widget-drawing and window management code. The client-server design is what makes X great, and should be kept. But with a default widget set, there'd be one place to change fonts, window decorations, colors, etc. And there'd be less repetition.

    It wouldn't be inflexible. A good X replacemnt would have an X-server client so that X programs could run as part of it. So it would still be easy to use your own toolkit if you really wanted to. And the server would have a plugin system to allow a wide range of widget and window styles.

    At the moment, I run KDE. I suppose X's architecture is better than Windows's putting everything in kernel-space, but it still pains me. I can't wait until I can easily run something like PicoGUI or Fresco on my desktop.