"KDE 4 is coming. It's starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year." Lots of screenshots too.
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Member since:2005-07-07
Very simple. Everyone with average intelligence who uses a computer 2 hours a week or less should use Gnome. The rest can benefit from the added power and efficiency KDE offers. They will get used to it in a few weeks, and be more productive.
Of course, I'm exaggerating. A little.
Member since:2005-09-27
Everyone with average intelligence who uses a computer 2 hours a week or less should use Gnome. The rest can benefit from the added power and efficiency KDE offers. They will get used to it in a few weeks, and be more productive.
I don't understand why you say that, I use Ubuntu with GNOME 5 hours a day.
But of course, you are just trolling.
Member since:2006-02-15
Very simple. Everyone with average intelligence who uses a computer 2 hours a week or less should use Gnome. The rest can benefit from the added power and efficiency KDE offers. They will get used to it in a few weeks, and be more productive.
Does that then mean I'm not of average intelligence? I use my laptop on daily basis, and usually throughout most of the day even and I find GNOME to be very good for me. I just tried KDE for a few days with the Sabayon livedvd and although it was pretty and I could do more or less the same stuff I do under GNOME I still just hated it. I didn't find any features there that would make me "more productive" than under GNOME. To me KDE just didn't cut it. I have not a single compelling reason to switch over to KDE but I have several good ones to stay under GNOME. Though, I gotta note that it was some KDE 3.whatevertheyhaveinSabayon.
Member since:2005-11-12
Member since:2006-04-10
My experience and the experience of the people I help with computers is that they feel at home in ubuntu(with gnome). In kubuntu they feel confused within 1 minute. Too much toolbars, configuration options, buttons... KDE just doesn't work logical for these people(and me).
I am very happy that Ubuntu uses gnome and that OpenSuSE and Mandriva have a nice gnome desktop too. KDE is the reason not to use PCLINUXOS or MEPIS.
Member since:2006-01-18
"In kubuntu they feel confused within 1 minute"
Lucky for you and your friends that gnome was designed for people with an attention span of less than 1 minute.
I'm sure that giving them the option to copy or move a file when dragging it in the file manager confused them no end.
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
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2005-07-06
I would guess, at least regarding Ubuntu, that KDE is considered to "complex", for their easy-to-use desktops for newcomers.
I would still dearly love to know who these users are, and who these supposed newcomers are.