Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Jun 2003 06:49 UTC
One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn't have the polish or stability of a .0 release. But one year has passed. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Update: Screenshots inside.
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Gnome 2 is a fine desktop. Personally, I prefer KDE, though. I love KDEs set of applications, I believe it's pretty consistent due to its brilliant modular design (one word: Konqueror) and, well, it's a matter of taste, too, of course. Anyway, I'm very happy that there is the Gnome project. Having several DEs means each one can specialize a bit, and the fact that Gnome does have a lot of fans (that mostly dislike KDE, too) pretty much proves that its existence is justified. I know many would prefer to see more collaboration and unity in the ranks of open-source developers - less conceptual forks, more focus on single tasks. However, I believe we should embrace diversity - it's one of the aspects that make open-source such a great thing. There's clearly enough room for Gnome and KDE.
One thing, though: integration with the underlying operating system. Hmhm. Let's see. Suppose both KDE and Gnome were to start efforts to produce such tools. There'd be need to have a carefully specified testing environment for the devs. Basically, they would have to either specify an Uber-LSB or create a simple distribution (and I'm not even taking the BSDs into account now; sorry). Should the DE projects actually aim at putting out a reference distribution? Where's that fine line Eugenia speaks of?