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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I too agree with this article about KDE's clutterness. It's definitely one of the main reasons I don't use it. The second main reason is that their graphical interface just "feels" weird to me. I guess it's the difference between QT and GTK.
But the main thing is that Gnome is so much cleaner, more classy and more elegant than KDE ... IN MY OPINION. (Opinion ... look it up if you don't know what it means.)
Take Konqueror's file manager for example and compare it to Nautilus. Nautilus gives you back, forward, up, stop, reload, and home. Konqueror gives you everything including the kitchen sink. My God. I just want to browse the file system hierarchy, not launch a nuclear missle. And what is the deal with the Kontrol Panel. Could it be any more convoluted?
The KDE developers need to learn that some times less is more.