Review: KDE 3.2

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.'"

Comments

No mention of KJuk?

[bonch]

No mention of KJuk being a COMPLETE RIP-OFF of iTunes? Come on...we couldn't have even come up with a different interface?

Re:Before the trolls come out.

[Ianoo]

QT is less free than Linux because of the derived works issue. Projects using QT are counted as derived works of QT, and hence MUST be licensed under the GPL. Projects running on Linux aren't counted as derived works, and so can pick whatever license they choose. Therefore the Linux kernel is much closer in freedom to an LGPL'd toolkit like GTK than it is to a GPL'd toolkit like QT.

Re:Wow except

[kurt555gs]

With all that said, KDE roolz Gnome Droolz

So , no contest

Gnome really does suck , I hate the time it takes me when i setup a Fedora machine that it takes to de-Gnome it.

And then it has a crippled KDE anyway.

Setupp Debian with real KDE and it rocks,

Oh .. soon there will be NATIVE (not X11) KDE for the MAC.

No contest

Cheers

I still cant help but be a little disappointed..

[Bowie J. Poag]

The work the KDE team has done is great, but... (*deep breath*)

...at the end of the day, all they've done is mimic a pre-existing design with (at best) a questionable pedigree...Windows. Since when did "the Windows way" become "the way everyone should do everything, including Linux users" ?

Before you go off and mod this a troll, stop and think about the idea. Why are we mimicking Windows? Or anything, for that matter? By mimicking Windows, aren't we simply reinforcing bad habits that Redmond introduced 10 years ago? If we all agree that Windows' GUI is sub-optimal, why are we expending so much time and energy attempting to replicate it, point for point?

I'd be sort of interested to see the point in KDE's history where this debate took place, if it ever did.. It certainly should have.

It's just frustrating to see so much work go into being the desktop equivalent of an Elvis impersonator, when we could easilly challenge (or even trump!) the real Elvis.. We've built an enterprise-class OS from scratch...You'd think that a good GUI would be trivial.

Anyway, as far as I know, neither GNOME nor KDE's team offer a skunk-works forum to discuss and develop new and different ideas. Quite the contrary. New ideas tend to be ridiculed and quickly dismissed. It's sort of odd, given how many truly creative people there are working on these respective projects.

Re:Usability Questions

[b-baggins]

~/.kde/share/applink/* is the directory for my Kmenu entires?!? What the heck kind of naming scheme is that?! Yeah, that directory path really tells me what goes there.

How about something like: ~/kde/Kmenu Entries/*

I suppose I'll just have to install the desktop and see for myself since all I'm getting here is apologetics. Maybe some day Linux users will get out of denial that their software is hard to use.

Mod me a troll. It doesn't matter.