Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'." Update: More of the discussion here.
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Member since:Not only that, but he made it clear he has never used Gtk. Because Gtk *is* object oriented. (Hint to the original poster: It is possible to do object oriented programming in C).
Oh, and if he doesn't want to... There is always gtkmm, which is vastly more object oriented than Qt is. It actually takes advantage of C++ features and doesn't resort to old C tricks like macros that break object orientation in evil ways.
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Whatever..
KDE is too inconsistent. Gnome2 is too simplified.
A blend of KDE, Gnome2 and Gnome1 would be better.
An object oriented approach is always good in regard to GUI. It might not be good in regard to very small CLI programs, but for a GUI OOP is the right choice.
The Gnome simplification has gone too far, but the mess in KDE isn't the option.
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> Not that I want the stupid complexity of KDE with absolutely no consistency in UI.
Excuse me what ? KDE's UI is by far more consistent than what GNOME offers that's due to their object oriented approach.