Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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Why should KDE "fix" its nature? Why should GNOME become more like KDE?
KDE is a geek toy. GNOME is the DE for Linux's cooperate/home-user future. You can't satisfy both "markets" at the same time. A middle-ground between KDE and GNOME would be too "dumbed down" for the geeks and to "toyish/overloaded" for the serious users.
The technical issues of GNOME can be fixed. And more important the GNOME people have the will todo so. Improving the preformance of GTK, writing a good IDE/RAD tool etc. can be done.
I come straight from the "developerworks" section of IBMs website. It contains articles which praise the wonders of GLIB or get you started on developing for GNOME. All the big cooperate Linux players (IBM, Sun, Novell) are on the GNOME bandwagon and for a reason.
Serious users don't want to have to worry about two different DEs and they won't have to. GNOME will be the standard, believe me.