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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."
Boo! KDE suXors, Gnome pwns
testing... sfsdf qtowas ffesa you are all gay
An OS is a tool, I want one that works, and I think most people feel the same way.
No, I want one that makes me feel cool, intelligent and fuels my eliteist, I-wanna-be-the-minority emo mind while being able to talk about words that people don't understand like GPL and FOSS while running programs with names that have no intuitive meaning like Gaim and Gimp and Evolution while showing off Glossy purdy Icons and Opac Docklets. If I just wanted one that works I'd stick with Windows 95.
I love humanity, it is people I hate
Fuck you to the idiots who modded this worthless karma whore up.
May I suggest wxWidgets or GTK (for use with Gnome) instead. You'll still get cross-platform compatability, but you'll be able to choose what license you use for your code (closed or open source).
Erotic movies featuring tons of shitting are also wildly popular in Germany. As are BMWs and Budweiser.
I don't think that Germany is the place to be looking for examples of good taste.
in rebuttal of your arguments: lol no1 carez, u smell
Spoken like a true Steven "Rim" Jobs' cock-gobbling-whore and a Bruce "Cunt" Perens ass-slave.
Nice try, fanboi!
I did some work with a firm a while back regarding the productivity of GNOME and KDE. They had a mix of Linux and OpenBSD systems, using various versions of GNOME and some using KDE.
A quick survey found that those who used the systems running KDE found themselves to be more productive. Overall, they reported that they were happier with KDE, and found it easier to get work done. Keep in mind that these were fairly regular people, not exactly techies. They were secretaries, accountants, and some such.
The main gripe most of the people had with GNOME was that it was slow. I forget the exact percentage, but it was something in the ballpark of 85% of the workers saying they found GNOME slow, while only about 45% described KDE as such.
While it may have been a problem with how GNOME was compiled that lead to it being considered so slow, I doubt that was the case. Some of the systems used the bundled, pre-built versions of GNOME. Others I had built, with -O3 and system-specific -march flags where appropriate. It appears from our survey that many users just find GNOME to be slow.
The secretaries were split between using LaTeX, KWord, and OpenOffice. Many of those running KDE and OpenOffice reported it to feel fast, while those running GNOME and OpenOffice described it as feeling slower. They only used one version of OpenOffice there (one of the 1.x releases) for compatibility reasons, so it was speculated that the overall slowness of GNOME may have lead GNOME users to find OpenOffice slow, as well.
That's only the tip of the iceberg. In general, those users who were using GNOME felt that their computers were more of a hassle than a benefit. The KDE users, on the other hand, more often than not said outright that they liked their systems, and found them helpful.
We recently transitioned the GNOME users to KDE 3.5, and the reports I'm getting back are that many of the users are quite happy to have switched from GNOME. They report their system is faster, even when it's the same OS and same physical computer, and they've been able to get more work done in a shorter amount of time.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
"Hmmm, and how would you get an idea of speed of the desktops from the codebases themselves"
Ok, you're clearly not a professional programmer. Yes, the KDE architecture is neater, however more often than not a cleaner OO architecture comes with a significant performance penalty. The best design is most often nowhere near the fastest. Go learn to program and then compare the two code bases. While the KDE code base is much nicer in terms of a clean OO paradigm, it's very obvious that it will consume more memory and run slightly slower. Not that it even really matters considering the power of todays computers.
Good coders can get an approximation of performance by looking at the code base, this is not even an issue worth being discussed. I think both KDE and Gnome run great, however I think it's clear that KDE offers a cleaner interface with the API (this is one reason for the abundance of configuration options in KDE) and suffers a small performance penalty for its superior architecture.
This is great, you'll have almost duplicated what Microsoft had 5 years ago, just in time for Vista to come out. Leave your parent's basements and go buy XP for $80
Fine, but then explain why more Americans have a preference for gnome.
I am trolling