Is Redhat/Fedora Losing Interest in KDE?

Chasecreek Systemhouse chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 20:56:36 UTC 2005


On 12/16/05, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:

> To be fair before the partisan stuff , Gnome and Nautilus has improved a
> lot since the last time I really tried it in RH9 days.

For many years I was Gnome Gnome Gnome; but starting with FC4 last
year I have seriously only been KDE KDE KDE.

Why?  Mainly because I see forward movement in KDE on multiple
platforms (the primary that I use Debian and FC mainly.)  And I see
foreward movement in development efforts to help other programmers 
"get into" Open Source development using KDE and related tools -- I do
not see this in Gnome and the lord knows I spent almost 30 minutes
trying to explain cross platform code compatibilty to a IT306 SDLC
student -- his question?  Where the hell was the GTK for Windows and
why does it seem hidden?  Until last night he was a big fan of Gnome
-- but I assigned a cross platform software project that must be
designed on Windows; tested on i366 FC4 and targeted for a PPC FC5
system.

At any rate I have gotten more use out of KDE -- and people use what
is more useful for them.

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