Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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I find some author remarks valuable, since I also think Linux lacks a lot of poslih, integration and API's.
But, in my opinion, the goal of GTK+ and Qt cooperation can be only intermediate solution, not "final soklution".
My ideal distro should support only one desktop, and even only one GUI library (GTK is my choice).
Reason is simple: when I start any Qt based program under Gnome it takes around 10 seconds just to start it the first time (loading Qt I presume). Gnome apps start almost instantly.
My point is: having dual/multiple toolkits supported is stupid in the long run, and makes Linux distros look slow and bloated, raising memory requirements big time.