Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Mar 2008 21:49 UTC
"I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?"
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2008-03-17
Moving to Qt4 changed too much of the api...so a lot of the kde libraries would have to be adapted. At some point it makes more sense to rewrite the whole system.
Whilst I agree that kde4 is ambitious (so much so that 4.0 is pretty much a dud in my eyes). I think trying to transition would be even more time consuming as kde3 libs would have to be ported and then again further down the line in order for them to bring new features.
The advantage gnome has is that they have a lot more control over what happens with regards to gtk. with gtk3 the transition will be a lot slower and there will be less breakage but applications will still have to be ported or fixed.