Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Aug 2006 01:47 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
KDE has released a development snapshot of KDE 4, ironically named "Krash". Nothing much to see for users, but should help kickstart porting and development.
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2005-07-06
You know, when KDE 4 is released I just wonder what reasons some people are going to come up with for saying something negative about it? A mess of options? It's not 'clean'? 'Clean' is a word I've heard a lot of from many people, but I'm still not certain what it means.
They'll probably tell us that it is irrelevant how good KDE 4 is because the 'big distributors' who are *cough* selling *cough* their 'enterprise distributions' are all using Gnome.
I've experienced Gnome's HIG first hand in Ubuntu for the past few months, and I have to say I'm shocked. In KDE or Windows when I change my theme I am used to having an application of sufficient functionality so I can see the preview of a theme should I customise it, with the colours, style and window decoration I use. Do I get that with Gnome? No I don't. All I get are a few checkboxes on a handful of very small applet windows. There's countless examples of many Gnome applications that don't follow their own HIG, quite clearly.
You know why Gnome is so clean and straightforward for 'ordinary users'? Because it simply doesn't do anything, that's why. For someone used to KDE, or Windows or even the Mac (which is supposed to be Gnome's role model) it is seriously lacking in functionality.
I hate to bring this up under an article about KDE, but it wouldn't be so bad if any of these points that are continually brought up had a purpose or were actually true. They're so not it's just laughable.
Edited 2006-08-19 21:06