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KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE
A reader writes: "KDE continues to grow. Early screenshots, mockups, and developer blogs show that the new Plasma Project (KDE 4.x branch) will bring innovative approaches to desktop computing. On the other hand, the very first screenshots of SimpleKDE, an unofficial fork of KDE, were meant to be a response to those who criticise KDE as being overbloated."
Since when was Windows female? (though that would explain a lot, now that I think about it....)
I've just read the slashdot summary, and the words "Methinks he doth protest too much" springs to mind.
The first words are: "KDE continues to grow", and the rest is a pure PR puff piece. Empty rhetorhic and desperate attempts to restore a bit of momentum to the dead-in-the-water-but-desperately-trying-to-keep-u p-with-GNOME KDE project.
You linux fanboys might call this stuff "innovative" but bloaty software turning our computer into an unresponsive slag of plasma in front of our eyes is tried and true for those of us that use Windows. With Microsoft, this is the quality we expect.
(Hey, it's a joke. Lighten up.)
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Is that why most major Linux distros are using GNOME by default nowadays? Oh wait.. they're using KDE. My bad.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
I can install XFCE on Red Hat if I like... it doesn't make it "supported". NLD defaults to GNOME... anything Sun does is GNOME. Frankly, Mandriva, Xandros, Linspire, Knoppix and Slackware don't count... unless you happen to be cooking up statistics by counting the number of distros instead of the influence. Xandros and its five users. Linspire and its ten. Knoppix a two man operation to create Yet-Another-L33t-Distro. And Slackware... give me a fucking break. The only reason it defaults to KDE is because Volkerding can't configure desktop software to save his fucking life. He only installed KDE because it was the easiest to compile. This is quite apart from the fact that Slackware is so completely irrelevant to today's Linux world, that if it disappeared tomorrow, the only people making a fuss would be you and a couple of other losers who think Red Hat is the devil. If you add up all the users of the distros you listed, you might break a couple of thousand (without Mandriva, I doubt you'd even get into three figures).
The fact is... KDE is on its last legs (Netcraft confirms it). SuSE only supports it as a legacy options (and in fact SuSE is a dead duck itself, NLD is where all Novell's efforts are going).
as you can see, despite some people loving to claim from the roof tops that GNOME is the default desktop in Distroland, it's a falsehood.
"As you can see" -- I see you posting a list of virtually irrelevant distros in an attempt to create a false impression.