OSNews is pleased to host today an exclusive interview with Waldo Bastian, the well known KDE developer and SuSE employee. Waldo has been involved pretty much in all levels in KDE's code, from Konqueror to kdelibs, to games and Kicker. Waldo speaks today about the success of KDE, its future, UnitedLinux, development and much more.
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Oh, and I forget about the Qt dependancy stuff. The equivalent to Qt is four or five packages in Gnome.
Do you know how many library a typical Gnome application depends on ? This is called the dependancy knightmare. I have counted 60 packages for the Gnome 2 release.
Compare this with 16 packages released for KDE 3, plus one for Qt.
Oh, and I forget about the Qt dependancy stuff. The equivalent to Qt is four or five packages in Gnome.
Do you know how many library a typical Gnome application depends on ? This is called the dependancy knightmare. I have counted 60 packages for the Gnome 2 release.
Compare this with 16 packages released for KDE 3, plus one for Qt.
Which one is easier to manage in your opinion ?