Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Feb 2006 18:37 UTC, submitted by Fusion
"Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the 'Compiz' compositing manager to the X.org project. These enhancements open up a whole world of hardware acceleration, fancy animation, separating hardware resolution from software resolution, and more. As a result, Linux desktops will become more usable, end-user productivity will increase, and Linux is firmly positioned at the forefront of client computing technology." Videos and screenshots are included in the press release. And on a related note, Dan Winship of Novell has explained on gnome-desktop-devel why Novell worked on all this behind closed doors-- and this also applies to the striking similarity between Novell's mockups from December and Nat Friedman's videos. The changes made to GNOME will all be released back.
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2005-11-14
I just realized I don't agree with most of the points you made in your post.
1) Enterprise also includes desktops, so improving the desktop environment is part of it. The fancy effects are not there so desktop consumers will be impressed by the software; these effects actually help making the software easier to use. XGL is also faster than a normal X server, with or without the pretty plugins, so it makes the Novell products more interesting to their customers.
2) The products from Novell that will be focusing on GNOME are not the ones you care about (by "you" I mean anyone who actually knows what KDE and GNOME are). What you care about is SUSE Linux which is probably even better for KDE users now than it was before. For one OpenSUSE was created; SuSE wasn't free before (YaST was proprietary software, relicensed under the GPL after Novell bought it).
3) You can't say that Miguel and Nat are anti-KDE based on comments you read from people that claim to be KDE users (I'm not saying KDE developers on purpose). Maybe this feeling is because people have the (wrong) idea that SUSE and OpenSUSE will become GNOME-centric products, when in fact that's not true. They equally support both environments.
Regarding the applications you mentioned, GNOME (and Novell) are just picking a different approach, not recreating KDE apps with GNOME libraries. For example, if you want to create a CD with files under GNOME (a "data" CD) you do it from the file manager. If you want to create a music CD ("audio" CD) you do it from your music library (Banshee in the NLD). This is a different approach and some people will prefer it.