...especially in the 3D-image (look at the upper left region). Photo is propably taken during some early morning or late evening hours (shadows casted by the mountains) so it could be a possibility.
It doesn't have to happen purely for technical reasons. When the choice is made (or someone powerful enough makes) between Gnome and KDE, the licensing and allready available applications might be the equally important reasons with existing architectural features.
For Novell the choice is allready made with their ownership of Ximian and Evolution. They want the whole package and KDE will always be the secondary option for them. But complementary (as described in the article), I don't think so.
And for the end user the technical differences between environments don't really matter. If the general feeling with the environment you are first provided with is good enough, you're pretty much stuck with that. You don't really want to know about your options (not if you're normal anyway:).
Would it be so bad if Linux had some day only one dominating desktop environment? The choice would be still there, if you wanted to look for it, and for the rest of us... we would just have something nice and polished to get our daily work done.
When the big boys (Novell, IBM, etc.) get things rolling, it's going to happen afterall. And why? Because of capitalism and competition.
From the moment someone wants to make serious money by providing services on top of Linux, the desktop and tools will have to follow. There are still parts in Linux that are substandard, whether one likes to hear it or not!
Blaa blaa... Mozilla was not the first one to include tabs into browser, first time I experienced tabbed browsing was with NeoPlanet (http://www.neoplanet.com/) somewhere around 1998 - a way before Mozilla was even a wet spot in some developer's pants.
Mouse gestures have also been around for a long time. For at least Windows there are some third party apps which let you attach a mouse gesture to some application function (for example to the browser's back button).
I've been following this whining that has been going on here (linux this, linux that + blind ms bashing). For a while it has been amusing, now it is just plain annoying. Can't take it anymore!
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...especially in the 3D-image (look at the upper left region). Photo is propably taken during some early morning or late evening hours (shadows casted by the mountains) so it could be a possibility.
It doesn't have to happen purely for technical reasons. When the choice is made (or someone powerful enough makes) between Gnome and KDE, the licensing and allready available applications might be the equally important reasons with existing architectural features.
:).
For Novell the choice is allready made with their ownership of Ximian and Evolution. They want the whole package and KDE will always be the secondary option for them. But complementary (as described in the article), I don't think so.
And for the end user the technical differences between environments don't really matter. If the general feeling with the environment you are first provided with is good enough, you're pretty much stuck with that. You don't really want to know about your options (not if you're normal anyway
Would it be so bad if Linux had some day only one dominating desktop environment? The choice would be still there, if you wanted to look for it, and for the rest of us... we would just have something nice and polished to get our daily work done.
When the big boys (Novell, IBM, etc.) get things rolling, it's going to happen afterall. And why? Because of capitalism and competition.
From the moment someone wants to make serious money by providing services on top of Linux, the desktop and tools will have to follow. There are still parts in Linux that are substandard, whether one likes to hear it or not!
Blaa blaa... Mozilla was not the first one to include tabs into browser, first time I experienced tabbed browsing was with NeoPlanet (http://www.neoplanet.com/) somewhere around 1998 - a way before Mozilla was even a wet spot in some developer's pants.
Mouse gestures have also been around for a long time. For at least Windows there are some third party apps which let you attach a mouse gesture to some application function (for example to the browser's back button).
I've been following this whining that has been going on here (linux this, linux that + blind ms bashing). For a while it has been amusing, now it is just plain annoying. Can't take it anymore!
Apple?