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Gnome 2.8 RC1 Released
FlipmodePlaya writes "Linux Today reports the first release candidate for Gnome 2.8 has been released. A look at the new stuff can be found here. Notably, the possible inclusion of Evolution, and some networking goodies. My opinion: the GUI changes look too much like Windows/Internet Explorer for my tastes; I guess it's not just KDE."
Windows looks too much like OSX!
Linux: Free if your time is worthless.
"I'd rather they copy apple, who's known for quality interfaces"
Does that include "quality interfaces" such as this one?
hehe, settle down apple fans, I'm just pointing out that no-one is perfect, not even apple.
"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
KDE is the most configurable of the bigger DEs you can make it look like Windows but you can also go feature hunting and get a simple, limiting DE like GNOME you can place your menubar at the top of the screen like MacOS or a desktop menubar (similar but not the same as GNOME).
The vanilla KDE release is for advanced users the idea is that your distribution provides packages configured according to the needs of their customers (ie simple, reduced feature-set for Lindows, everything and a kitchensync for slackware)
KDE offers the perhaps best framework which explains why KDE apps where lacking a few years back (most gtk apps where better, had more features less bugs etc) but are often better now. Kontact's catching up on Evolution with astonishing speed because the use of kparts provides most of the functionality. Similarily Konqueror which's always derided as a bloated is vastly faster than nautilus because it's just a highly modular framework. Therefore limiting all that by saying "it's too much like Windows" is just the normal trolling from the gnome-zealots trying to justify the bad decisions by gnome (with the button order still being the most stupid decision ever, as if 20 toolkits looking different aren't enough we try to get them to behave as different as possible). Yay for goneme
(You can do most of the things that are possible with KDE on Windows too with the right extensions but they unfortunatly tend to slow down the system and are buggy as hell (I know, I tried them =) )
Feel free to mod me down it is trolling, not worse than the parent but that's at least in line with the original news posting =)
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
I have not read all the posts yet, but since this is a GNOME article go ahead and queue up the people who say KDE is better.
And queue up the minimalistic zealots who wonder why everyone runs KDE and GNOME when they run FVWM/Openbox/WindowMaker, etc because it just does what they want it to and nothing more. And my favorite, "it is so lightweight" "It puts no strain on my Dual Athlon, 1GB RAM system."
And queue me up as saying why the hell do those people feel they need to post in a GNOME forum if they don't like it.
It's called choice people, as in "freedom of".