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.'"

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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.