Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 16th Jul 2002 20:01 UTC
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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The toolkit equinox uses is not a "third big toolkit". Fltk is quite compact and has been around just as long as Gtk and Qt, at least. Probably that's what Kde should have used in the beginning instead of getting in bed with Trolltech. Not as polished as Qt, but Kde developers could have made it more polished.
Equinox is a small project that probably only has 2 or 3 developers and is designed to work well on older and low end hardware. Kde doesn't run well at all on such hardware. Gnome runs somewhat better, excepting Nautilus, but Gnome might be overkill for many users.
Qt/Kde and Gtk/Gnome are not very fast and Qt/Kde most certainly isn't anywhere near fast enough for low end hardware, which just means perfectly good systems that are a few years old.