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Attempting To Reframe "KDE Vs. GNOME"

Posted by kdawson on from the evolution-revolution dept.

jammag writes "Setting aside the now tired debate about whether KDE or GNOME is the 'better' Linux desktop, Bruce Byfield compares their disparate development approaches and asks, not which desktop is subjectively better, but which developmental approach is likely to be most successful in the next few years. 'In the short term, GNOME's gradualism seems sensible. But, in the long-term, it could very well mean continuing to be dragged down by support for legacy sub-systems. It means being reduced to an imitator rather than innovator.' In contrast, 'you could say that KDE has done what's necessary and ripped the bandage off the scab. In the short term, the result has been a lot of screaming, but, in the long term, it has done what was necessary to thrive.'"

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  1. Re:Both will stay relevant by X0563511 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Insightful, but completely unrelated to the topic.

    The story is about development methods used. The summary itself says so!

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  2. Former KDE Lover by Prototerm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've been a KDE user for many years, but with the advent of version 4.0, I was forced to switch to Gnome. Why?

    1. The default KDE looks like Vista. I find Vista's GUI to be an ugly, unpleasant monstrosity. What's with all this black, anyway?

    2. KDE 4.0 was buggy and incomplete. If I wanted to use beta-quality software as Release Quality, I'd still be using Windows.

    Hopefully, by the time the developers get around to screwing up Gnome with some new "artsy-fartsy" new look and feel, KDE will have gone through enough iterations to be feature complete and stable (not to mention have plenty of new non-black themes I can live with).

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    1. Re:Former KDE Lover by SomeKDEUser · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Uh... Let me get this straight.

      You are a happy KDE 3.5.10 user. Presumably, you prefer it to GNOME.

      KDE releases 4.0. You do not like it. So you switch to GNOME instead of your preferred KDE 3.5.

      This makes no sense. Unless of course you have assumed that upon the release of KDE 4, the devs sacrificed many chickens and magically erased all previous versions in hard drives throughout the world. And you acted on that belief.

      See, the problem might not lie with the KDE devs...

  3. Re:KDE has gotten too abrasive by rec9140 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, links please.

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  4. Re:Both will stay relevant by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Am I doing well in blending in?

    Not really. Your post had not a single mention of any of the following topics that are key in any Slashdot discussion:

    • evil Microsoft
    • good Google
    • Apple reality distortion field
    • Ron Paul
    • Soviet Russia
    • Beowulf cluster
    • our overlords
    • Slashdot moderators
    • Slashdot editors

    Your premise that you can "write something completely unrelated to the article, summary, title and comments" only holds when you stick to one of the topics in the list above.