is KDE dead - did Gnome win?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:53 -0500, Kelly Miller wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com>
>> wrote:
>>           Followup to let you know what I decided for myself - I have
>>         switched
>>         from KDE to Gnome. I tried, but KDE4 is just not ready today.
>>
>> Have fun.  I've been with KDE since 3.2, and KDE 4 since 4.0.  Quite
>> frankly, 4.2 beats the pants off of just about anything I've seen out
>> there at this point.  It's definitely ready.
>>
>>
>>           I know I am not the only person who has switched to Gnome. I
>>         will
>>         revisit this in the coming months and perhaps KDE can recover
>>         to be the
>>         functional, configurable, useful desktop it once was.
>>
>> Are you trying to draw flames or something?  KDE  is functional,
>> configurable and useful, unless you're so totally tied to the Windows
>> desktop metaphor that the very concept of something else drives you
>> absolutely batty.
> ----
> the truth is though, that he is not the only one who switched from KDE
> to GNOME. It's about the expectations.
>
> I personally agree that I would rather be using the KDE on F10 than
> GNOME but not everyone who disagrees is inherently wrong.
>
> Craig


I guess I should have posted a public announcement back when I
switched from Gnome to KDE.

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