Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jun 2008 08:14 UTC
The KDE project saw the writing on the wall. They saw that they had reached a certain limit when it came to what could be done with the KDE 3.x series - they named it the "big friggin' wall", and decided that in order to get over that wall, incremental updates wouldn't do - they needed massive changes, a big jump, and they went for it. It's been a rough road, but it seems as if KDE 4.1 is showing signs of the vision becoming a reality. And it now seems as if several people within the GNOME community are seeing the writing on the wall too: GNOME 2.x has reached its goal - now what?
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2008-03-25
Excitment is important to keep things going sometimes for a normal person. When you're in touch and see so many "looking good/fancy" desktop managers or more fancy look in mobile devices, and then look back at the relatively boring GNOME or Windows 98 look and feel, you'd just feel... bored.
At work, may be it's ok because work may be bored for many people anyway, or they may be too busy for any "excitment" that're not related to work. But when you're back home and relax, some stimulation and fun by look and feel is never bad.
Besides, some "excitment" that seems to be useless at first may turn into something useful later on, just like many seemingly useless mathematical theories, which ultimately turned into the foudnation stone of some exciting and useful new technology. GNOME can't always stay in its ancient look when everyone's moving on in look and feel.
Edited 2008-06-11 17:18 UTC