Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. [However,] Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME. "The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE."
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Member since:Before complaining about KDE, yet I haven't found a good full complete theme for GNOME. All the artwork found on art.gnome.org as well as gnome-look.org are unpleasing to look at, the icons are looking bad, wallpapers look bad and you don't find anything matching.
For KDE I primarily go with the fefault plastik setup and nuvola icons. This setup feels like its made and waiting specially for being used inside KDE.
Besides that a MONO application can not be considered a GNOME application. MONO only happen to have provided GTK# bindings so their default interface uses GTK+ but thats almost all. MONO still isn't a requirement nor part of GNOME and you will see hell freeze the day MONO gets part of GNOME, we will see another topic on OSN saying that MONO is part of GNOME and you see a comment section that passes the 250 comments barrier because of this (which in effect means another at least 200 users more for KDE).
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Member since:"Because KDE design sucks, too many colors, unpolished made by people without art skills 
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You sound very intelligent! You must be one of those JoeSixpacks that Gnome tries very hard to attract with their dumb-down DE. I don't ever want to see people with your intellect using KDE because then I would have to look for another DE to use.
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I know it's a matter of taste where you cannot wrangle about but I think quite the opposite:
I don't know anyone who likes the standard Gnome stock icons. They look very outdated, unsharp, too complex - see the stripes at the help icons which are and some childish - see GConf editor icon - in my point of view.
The new Tango icons look better but still do not have the quality like Crystal or Nuvola icons. The perspectives are not correct - see the battery icon - nor are the colors consistent - see log out button and new contact etc. The log out button for example was completely taken from the old Gnome stock icons and is very outdated and not very friendly to look at: if I log out i don't want to step in a dark room...
Show the KDE icons and the Gnome icons to some professional designers and I'm sure most of them will say that the KDE icons are more professional than the Gnome icons.
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And your point is? Some UI stuff for you. What exactly does "reveal" mean? I suspect that it means "show file information" or something similar, but it's not very clear. "Refine" - Again, not a word I'd use. "Find now". You don't really need to use the word 'now' in all honesty. By clicking on the 'find' button, you're expecting it to start searching as soon as you click on it! UI isn't just about how the windows look, how you interact with the windows visually, clutter/unclutter, etc, etc. Using the right label idenfication, etc, is also very important. I almost get the impression that the various labels in this example were originally designed for a non English language, and then very badly translated into English.
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Member since:Ah, nice troll.
So you think comparing a KDE app with an interface that even the developers admit is terrible and that they are working on fixing in the next version, with the mockup of a new frontend for beagle, that doesn't exist yet apart from a development version in cvs is a great idea?
Wow.
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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."
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"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.Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces."But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
"Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, up 59.1% from the 125.4 million units shipped during 1Q12." Windows Phone doubles from a few to twice few, iOS loser market share as its growth is slower than that of the overall market. BlackBerry continues slide into irrelevance."According to the latest research from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies service, global Android smartphone profits reached US$5 billion in total during the first quarter of 2013. Samsung dominated and captured an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits." Wow.
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Ok guys take a look at this kde app
http://kat.mandriva.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_...
and now the Gnome (Ximianized) app
http://img496.imageshack.us/img496/5360/screenshot1fh.png
Why Novell choosen Gnome ?
now you know why