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KDE 4 Screenshots
carlmenezes writes "Screenshots of the upcoming and much talked about KDE 4 have appeared at Planet Diaz. They include screenshots of the control panel, system tray, tabbed views, music and mail views, plus a mockup or two. I don't know what the Gnome guys are up to, but KDE is starting to look seriously cool."
I'm talking about the complete environment, which is why I was comparing it to Gnome. KDE has more issues than I can get into right now, but if that's all you've been using for eight years, you probably don't see them. I think they're glaringly obvious if looked at from a non-KDE user perspective.
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I'm posting because I'm genuinely interested in what is being done for the sake of usability. I do not wish to debate what the current problem are... I don't have time for that right now.
It's the redhat FUD. Americans got taken in by the redhat "KDE sucks" marketing (which I presume was because redhat want more propriety apps on linux so people get used to paying for stuff, so they want gtk to be the dominant toolkit) and are trying to justify themselves.
I am trolling
Am I the only one seeing odd similarities between KDE4 and Gnome screenshots?
Yes, you are. These mock ups are nothing like Gnome because what they're doing is putting some serious thought into the interface, whilst at the same time keeping all the features that people want and need but thinking about where they go and how they're arranged. It's called usability done right. All Gnome does is take a hacksaw to all the features 'that will confuse ordinary users' simply as an excuse because they don't have the framework and resources to implement the features KDE has. Linus Torvalds made that very same point in a pretty no nonsense way not so long ago.