A developer meeting strengthens a Linux desktop alliance that could lead to better leverage with hardware vendors and more cross-distribution efforts such as the newly created Portland Project.
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And this little thread is exactly why Portland cannot win unless it remains somehow generic and simply seeks to establish a canonical set of tools, and a cononical naming convention for access to those tools via menu in an attempt to minimize confusion when zipping from one Linux box to another...
Member since:"the userbility studies attempt to find the DE that people prefer using....and gnome comes out top in almost every case."
I think you're quite wrong here 
A usability says nothing about what people prefer, it lets people know which DE is more usable, from a certain point of view.
A test could for example reveal that MacOS X is more usable than Microsoft Windows, yet not everyone seems to prefer MacOS X.
So dispite that GNOME might be more usable than KDE, I would not be suprised if the majority indeed DID prefer KDE.
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2005-07-06
Usability studies don't attempt to find which desktop is more popular, only which desktop is more usable.