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Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project
Quique writes "The KDE Community is pleased to announce the launch of the Quality Team Project, a community of contributors who will serve as a gateway between developers and users in the KDE Project, and as a new way for people to begin contributing. KDE is a very attractive project, offering high quality software and is freely available. There is a lot of people who feel the urge to give something back, but stop in the middle of the way, frustrated by the steep learning curve. The aim of the project is to reduce these barriers by welcoming these potential contributors, and by offering documentation, support, and even guidance if requested. The objective is to support the new contributors, (programmers, documenters, testers, artists...). Have you ever wished to help KDE in some way, but never knew how? Keep reading!"
For 10 years the Desktop Linux user experience was so bad you literally couldn't give it away to anyone outside the industry. It seems that the hackers finally got the point. Better late than never !
Post corrected to 10 years - although, frankly the Multics interface, the original Unix and the X-Windowed Sun stuff wasn't much better.
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Wait, people volunteer to work on software that corporations make billions of dollars off of, like IBM and Redhat? Can't they at least kick in a living wage for the poor guy that is doing the testing for a product they offer? Isn't that how its supposed to work? Or not?
If you want a usable interface, use Gnome. A simple Applications menu and Actions menu at the top by default.
KDE wants one huge, super-long list with absolutely redundant things like Settings, System, Preferences, and then thirty-thousand other menus seperated by bars.
And then within each group, a "More Programs" link for some bizarre reason.
And then you fire up Control Center and there are 100,000 items to choose from, and the cursor always changes to that awful hand icon with the finger that's too long. Cursor changes are confusing to users and diorients them. The cursor also changes for some reason on taskbar buttons.
I could go on and on.
GNOME Release Team
Neither of these have helped Gnome's lousy inconsistent UI.
Heck Miguel himself realizes the huge kludge that is the gnome API. Now he's wasting his time trying to "re-imagine" the API as a .NET clone. LOL. What a joke. He'll be following BG around with a roll of toilet paper for years before that goes anywhere!
Sad really.... If Linux is going to make any headway on the desktop, Gnome's gotta go.
Regarding compilation: I'm using Gentoo. :) Took me 14 hours for KDE. And, yes, believe it or not, it does take 4 seconds for the Home folder to open, and I did have my correct optimizations and everything.
As for that new Control Center, my god--when can we expect that?