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Review: KDE 3.2

Posted by michael on from the sweet-creamy-gui dept.

Anonymous writes "Today I installed KDE 3.2, third major release of the award winning KDE3 desktop platform, on my Fedora box. I have been using KDE 3.2 RC for the past few days and the final version from today. My first impression is 'wow.'"

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  1. not really a review by wine · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is not a review. It's just a rehash of some parts of the kde3.2 announcement enhanced with a few screenshots and personal comments.

  2. Re:Really? Infamous? by krumms · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the Gnome folks stick to their procedural programming style APIs which are fine for simple programs, but for larger programs it just means that the programmer has to reimplement the OO overhead.

    You don't know what you're on about.

    1. Gnome and GTK are both object oriented APIs.
    2. C is for Compatability ...
    3. ... which means it runs on a larger number of platforms than that C++ of yours you only barely stop short of calling a silver bullet.
    4. ... and wrappers for other languages can be written more easily.

    Gnome developers chose C because it works. Everywhere.

    And don't forget stepping up to C++ leaves C developers out in the cold - especially if you make any sort of use of templates. That goes for moc too.

    Even wxWindows has a GTK port. Where's the KDE/QT port?

    So stop laying shit on the "Gnome folks".