Comments on: With the coming of KDE 4.3, the old question comes back: which is better - KDE or GNOME? http://www.softwareinreview.com/with-the-coming-of-kde-43-the-old-question-comes-back-which-is-better-kde-or-gnome/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 17 May 2012 07:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Nuke http://www.softwareinreview.com/with-the-coming-of-kde-43-the-old-question-comes-back-which-is-better-kde-or-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Nuke Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:13:23 +0000 http://www.softwareinreview.com/?p=128#comment-243 Theat second "reason" :- " 2) GNOME is the default for Fedora, Ubuntu, and several other major distributions " I don't accept that. If coming with a "distro" as a convenience is really such a significant advantage then Windows should win the contest hands down ;-) Is Kubuntu, Ubuntu with KDE, really so far away? Theat second “reason” :-

” 2) GNOME is the default for Fedora, Ubuntu, and several other major distributions ”

I don’t accept that. If coming with a “distro” as a convenience is really such a significant advantage then Windows should win the contest hands down ;-) Is Kubuntu, Ubuntu with KDE, really so far away?

]]> By: fred http://www.softwareinreview.com/with-the-coming-of-kde-43-the-old-question-comes-back-which-is-better-kde-or-gnome/comment-page-1/#comment-102 fred Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:23:20 +0000 http://www.softwareinreview.com/?p=128#comment-102 I bet GNOME guys would have a lot of problems modernizing GNOME. For GNOME 3.0, seems that they only modernize the 'look and feel', and not the fundamental technologies. Also, the GTK+ guys announced they'll break the API for GTK 3.0, which I think will cause pain to GNOME like transition to Qt 4 caused pain in KDE side. However, KDE had done that, porting from old toolkit and desktop technologies to brand new toolkit and set of technologies (Qt 4, nepomuk, strigi, phonon, plasma, KOffice). I believe this pain would result in brighter future for KDE. Like it or not, a lot of people praise KDE 4.3 and switch to it from older KDE or GNOME or other DEs. And in only 3 months, KDE 4.4 will be released with more stability and features. I bet GNOME guys would have a lot of problems modernizing GNOME. For GNOME 3.0, seems that they only modernize the ‘look and feel’, and not the fundamental technologies. Also, the GTK+ guys announced they’ll break the API for GTK 3.0, which I think will cause pain to GNOME like transition to Qt 4 caused pain in KDE side.

However, KDE had done that, porting from old toolkit and desktop technologies to brand new toolkit and set of technologies (Qt 4, nepomuk, strigi, phonon, plasma, KOffice). I believe this pain would result in brighter future for KDE. Like it or not, a lot of people praise KDE 4.3 and switch to it from older KDE or GNOME or other DEs. And in only 3 months, KDE 4.4 will be released with more stability and features.

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