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> KDE is what GNOME wanted to be Lol, from a historical perspective this is quite literally true: GNOME was born to be a GPL clone of KDE, back when QT had a g
by toyg 3y ago
> KDE is what GNOME wanted to be
Lol, from a historical perspective this is quite literally true: GNOME was born to be a GPL clone of KDE, back when QT had a gnarly license.
- moffkalast 3y agoGNOME doesn't seem ideologically similar to KDE at all though, it's very hardcoded with hardly anything is adjustable. KDE is like the opposite of that, it can mimic most Windows features as well, e.g. quicklaunch, non-grouped taskbar windows with titles.
- toyg 3y agoThis philosophy emerged later, when GNOME tried to differentiate. In the first few versions it was as flexible as KDE, it had fewer trinkets only because they came later and had to catch-up. It was only with version 3 that they went "full Apple", when they adopted a somewhat-dictatorial style of development.
- MrDrMcCoy 3y agoI wonder how much of that dictatorial nature comes from more and more of the developers getting hired by Red Hat, who basically decides everything related to systemd/gnome/freedesktop these days...
- rodgerd 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_1#/media/File:GNOME_1.0_(1999,_03)_with_file_manager_application.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_1#/media/File:GNOME_1.0_... is what GNOME 1 looked like.