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New Qt Based Desktop Environment

Posted by Unknown on from the this-is-not-the-gnome-you-were-looking-for dept.

aglider writes "Phoronix has an interesting piece of news about a new emerging desktop environment. And it's Qt based! From the project home page: 'Razor-Qt is an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and an intuitive interface. Unlike most desktop environments, Razor-Qt also works fine with weak machines.' Someone has already tagged Razor-Qt as 'a KDE ripoff.' What we have so far is version 0.4, ... and ... a number of easy ways to install and test it on a few main Linux distributions. Maybe time has come for something really new in the desktop environment arena almost completely occupied by GNOME and KDE." The project site has a few screenshots, and the source is available under a mixture of the GPL and LGPL. It looks pretty pedestrian in its current form, but then XFCE wasn't much to look at in its early stages either.

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  1. Good or Bad thing? by Mastadex · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is it me, or are the people at QT trying to make QT into something more than it should be. I always though of it as a GUI library.

    Next step, QT OS!

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    A morning without coffee is like something without something else.
  2. Re:KDE ripoff? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Windoze sucks!!!!

    It is not intutative at all, it is not simple, and barely functional. Blow OSX all the crap you want, my mom can figure it out - it is unsupassed right now under version 10.6.x.

    Look to NeXT, BeOS, Amiga, DragonFly, - get something new already. Look beyond the mundane. Linux people are to the point where they are hoping they can make their little linux box look like windoze. OOOOOOO - get windoze then.

    I want a better OS and a better GUI - no more of the same old crap.