Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
KDE 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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RE: RE: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;-)
by tor on Mon 15th Dec 2003 11:54 UTC

Majority of linux people like to tweak, tinker, modify and learn. If you want a desktop for dummies it will only be for people who don't care what the underlying OS is.

That may have been a valid argument up until now; Linux has so far been a geek's OS. However, if we want Linux on the desktops of ordinary users, thus posing a real threat to M$, its user interface will have to be so simple that neither the dummies (How arrogant!) nor anyone else will have to care about the underlying OS. It agree with those who say that there is the time now for the KDE team to clean up and sort out, not necessarily omit anything, but to find some better ways of making the KDE interface simpler to navigate within. For ordinary users you can hardly over-simplify anything.