3 ms·
We have already lost so many years of work in the competition between Gnome and KDE.
by Shorel 13y ago
We have already lost so many years of work in the competition between Gnome and KDE.
- davidgerard 13y agoOTOH, without competition we wouldn't have had XFCE to retreat to when both GNOME and KDE went weird.
- busterarm 13y agoI don't know what you're talking about. I've been using Blackbox/Fluxbox since 1998. :D
- keithpeter 13y agoGod heavens, why all the bloat, just what is wrong with TWM? Seriously Canonical needs to market Ubuntu to device manufacturers to generate an income stream. I really hope they succeed although I think it is a shame that they have felt the need to fork the Graphics sub-system in this way.
- zanny 13y agoYou would have still had Openbox. And Enlightenment. And Xmonad...
- davidgerard 13y agoOne naked xterm - none of this girly-man "window-manager" rubbish - from which I start every other application, specifying -geometry. If I'm feeling effete that day.
- Pacabel 13y agoI don't think that that's the case at all. Even if we ignore the obvious differences in philosophy and implementation between the two, we're better off that they both exist solely because they've acted as hedges for one another. When KDE 4 was released, it wasn't exactly ready for widespread use. While things did rapidly improve, GNOME at least provided an option for those who wanted a more modern desktop environment than KDE 3.5 in the interim. The opposite situation has happened more recently. GNOME 3 was a complete disaster at first, and in many ways still is. Many former GNOME 2 users switched to KDE 4, by that time a mature and very usable desktop environment. Since we have seen only minimal effort from the GNOME 3 community to address its severe problems, the existence of KDE has become more critical for more users.