The People Behind KDE interviews are back with a new series. First in the hot seat is aKademy organiser Antonio Larrosa. The People Behind KDE interviews take a look at the human side of KDE development by asking the important questions to our team of coders, artists, translators and everyone else who helps KDE.
It’s so great to see all these creative and heavily active KDE Developers doing so much great things. Thanks to the KDE people we now can enjoy an open source Desktop that from my standpoint can easily stand behind commercial competitors such as Microsoft Windows and Apple’s Tiger. There is no other open source alternative which is as powerful, as great and as enjoyable than KDE. Thanks a lot.
Agree. Now that KDE has a established and powerful framework, they can focus on usability and artistic aspects of the desktop. If they manage to acomplish this integration, I’m pretty sure KDE 4 will be a majestic achievement for the free software community.
Thanks KDE!
Not very good ones.
Very good ones.
Everyone should use Gnome instead of KDE. For starters, QT is much less free than GTK. QT is released under the GPL whereas GTK is released under the LGPL. That makes it much easier to take GTK and use it in commercial software without paying anything or contributing. And that’s what the free software movement is all about!
And then there’s the configurability. KDE is configurable. This is bad! People might change settings and not know how to change them back. What if they change all the colours to white? This isn’t a problem with Gnome – no-one knows how to configure anything! So there’s no problem.
PS. What about the naming conventions? Giving all the apps names starting with K is stupid. Naming your desktop environment after a goddamn lawn ornament is much more professional.
What about features? KDE has lots of them. This is bad as well. I’m not sure why. Oh, I remember! It’s because every feature has to appear on the desktop menu. That’s why the KDE menu takes up 3 widescreen displays and has several thousand options. The Gnome developers are working towards having only one option – quit. It’s expected to be very popular.
Finally there’s the performance. KDE gives you no time to rest between operations, leading to serious user exhaustion. With Gnome you can go and make a cup of coffee while you wait for the screen to repaint – much better for peoples health.
Unfortunately I’m not a programmer, so I can’t really explain why trying to build GUI apps with some bastardised, object-oriented version of C is so much better than just using C++. So you’ll have to take my word for it on that one.
> Everyone should use Gnome instead of KDE. For
> starters, QT is much less free than GTK. QT is
> released under the GPL whereas GTK is released
> under the LGPL. That makes it much easier to take
> GTK and use it in commercial software without
> paying anything or contributing. And that’s what
> the free software movement is all about!
Besides your crappy attempts to stirr this article into shit, you are also wrong too. A new user don’t know anything about LGPL or GPL or GTK+ or QT or whatever. The new user expects his desktop to work similar to what he used before – Windows and want their apps to look harmonical consistent.
Besides this the new user don’t know about code, fixing stuff or whatever, they only want to have their things work and in case of problems want to talk to people who are willing to help them. With KDE they get all this help with GNOME you need to either swallow a lot of insulting flames from the core developers, or getting told to fuck off, or getting told to stop trolling (just because someone said something or asked for some help). The entire GNOME community is stirring up a lot of problems, their community is highly insulting and evil, not to mention there are a lot of offensive namecallings and slandering. Then there are dozen of different languages used for the Desktop, sure the new user don’t know much about that but he gets into deep shit once asked for a backtrace or told to sent in patches (that probably nukes is capabilities).
All stuff I haven’t seen with the KDE people, nor their desktop nor their community. KDE is build up with one Language, it’s consistent, clean, works similar like WindowsXP (and even better in many areas), their bug tracker works, their automatic crash handler works and their community seem to be spending a lot of time helping other people. Also users who want to become future developers seem to be not left alone, there are a lot of older and long involved programmers guiding these people through all the stuff. Their community is healthy, refreshing, their Desktop is leading and polished and the license issues you have raised are not existing.
Re-read the parent posters, I think he was a bit sarcastic
i think mr “Use Gnome” was being a big sarcastic (IP: 84.129.192.—) …. just take a deep breath and realize…. he was joking
> Re-read the parent posters, I think he was a bit sarcastic
uuups
Looks like some GNOME clown are modding all the great replies down.
gnome clown or ass clown? lol
Yes, not all of us use linux out there. I for one use NetBSD and while kde runs nicely on it and can be ported with every NetBSD release in its latest version, gnome takes ages to be ported and has lots of dependency problems everywhere, not to mention bugs. That says a lot about cuality and good design. I used to be a gnome user while in linux, I liked its visual simplicity, but I think I will get used to kde complexity if it gives me in my plataform of choise what I need, a nice, fast, integrated desktop. Sadly, gnome is far from it right now. Yes, gnome looks polished in fedora and ubuntu, but what if you are using something else? kde looks polished wherever you use it.
it’s nice to have a DE that you can adjust to your taste, but when it is, all other possible configuration becomes dead code…, that only wastes space…
why instead of having one only big filemanager with 6 modes of view, have different filemanagers, and thay talk to the session-manager to find the other components of the DE
Whoa, hold up. Look the various modes are just store text. This has nothing to do with code. It’s really just text which tells what the mode should behave like and look like.
What you’re saying leads to dead code since each one is a separate application which requires its own binary.
well, if they are totally different programs (totally different libraries), yes.
But if i want a simple filemanager with only five buttons, i can take konqueror and delete all buttons i don’t want but their files remain in the disk, and the code that check configurations at start-up too.