Star The Critics are Wrong: KDE 4 Doesn't Need a Fork
Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 16:11 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
KDE "After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters engage in a war of words over the technology. The controversy has escalated to the point where some users are now advocating a fork in order to move forward the old KDE 3.5 UI paradigms. As an observer who has closely studied each new release of KDE 4, I'm convinced that the fork rhetoric is an absurdly unproductive direction for this debate."
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by tyrione on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 21:11 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: ..."
tyrione
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2005-11-21

"One can always write straight Qt applications and move forward with the Qt4.5/4.6 with 64bit Qt Cocoa to have native OS X applications native Linux applications, not to mention native Windows applications.

There are options.


Yes, indeed. But with KDE 4.x you can write native applications for Windows, Mac OS X, BSD*, Linux etc too. You can use KDE frameworks like Decibel, Solid, Plasma, Nepomuk and Akonadi that greatly enhance and build on the excellent Qt4 libs foundation. "

Correct, yet if I want to write Cocoa Qt applications I can and leverage Cocoa whereas KDE 4 doesn't even have language bindings for ObjC, let alone ObjC2.0 and much more needed to leverage Cocoa within KDE4.

I will be able to do this with Qt 4.5/4.6.

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