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Overall, all of them are fine desktop environments. But the thing is, if you're making a large application, for Gnome for example, then you can't by default be
by rqs 8y ago
Overall, all of them are fine desktop environments.
But the thing is, if you're making a large application, for Gnome for example, then you can't by default be confident that your application can work very well on other desktop environments like KDE or XFCE.
I think this is what the speaker have meant: Linux Desktops moves many responsibilities on to you (You need to test your app against for each desktop environment for example). And sometime, that many responsibilities can be troublesome (burden, to say the least).
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoThe main underlying issue is that, aside from Linus, no one seems to believe that they are creating a product for which they should be responsible to users. Everything that is wrong is someone else's fault in some way, because the whole Rube Goldberg machine of Linux userspace is slapped together from disparate projects with no coherent design philosophy.
- michaelmrose 8y ago"But the thing is, if you're making a large application, for Gnome for example, then you can't by default be confident that your application can work very well on other desktop environments like KDE or XFCE." This just isn't true. There are literally 40 different graphical environments available that can run X applications. If your target desktop has the required libraries for your app to work OR you have packaged them with your app it will work regardless of users desktop.