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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Congratulations, Eugenia. This is an excellent review. If you don't mind, I will fill some usability bugs citing your review.
I specialy agree that cervisia is a bit too invasive. How many times do you use it inside Konqueror? Why not start it as a separate program?
Also, you get the main KDE point: it should be easier to make kde usabl than GNOME, since KDE has a unified framework. KDE has all it takes to bee an excellent corporate/user desktop. The project and the distributors could use better this flexibility. I think the KDE community already noticed that. And they are acting to make it happen, see the KDE, Debian and UserLinux iniciative.
Many people talk about desktops like they talk about religion. They talk about fate. No explaining, just fate. This leads to nowhere. One example is:
Desktop XXXX is going to be the next default desktop.
Why? Is it better? It is more used today? It has the right technologies? It has the right defaults? These are the right questions, because they provide the answers for going forward. And your article does that.