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- spin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here is the same info straight from the horses mouth.
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/index.php?title=kde_and_gnome&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
And there was much rejoicing. - Remmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BigDumbGuy works for Novell AND Sony? Wow. Busy guy... or a forum troll.
- toran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1smart move by novell. From what I've heard, KDE has (quite a few) more users than Gnome, so..
(disclaimer: I use neither KDE nor Gnome. I'm on fluxbox meself ^_^) - tadelste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Smart move by Novell.
- BigDumbGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pwned
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BigDumbGuy, Fark cliches don't translate very well to Digg. :P
Most people here are humorless nerds. - Tufriast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I already posted this story, man. Nobody dugg it back then though. LOL.
- Rabid_Llama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Cuz some Diggers belive anything they hear."
Yeah, some diggers might even believe things like "I work for Novell." :D
Care to give some of your insider insight? - hollyoak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I'm not sure if there are really any reliable figures on this"
SuSE always said that over 70% of its users used KDE. This was in the days when SuSE could not be downloaded for free so these figures could be accurately arrived at by SuSE. All Linux vendors and distos etc. are aware of how many people download KDE packages vs Gnome packages so estimates are reasonably accurate. Interesting to note that KDE seems to have gained in popularity since Gnome started "simplifying" itself.
KDE requires a qt license if you plan to ever sell your product.
Not true. Read the GPL. It is perfectly legal to sell GPL software.
One of the main reasons the FSF rejected the old YAST licence was that it prevented it from being sold for a price. - atf487, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1gnome > jesus
- jav1231, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Again, what will the focus be? You can have KDE or Gnome on RHat but its clear RHat prefers Gnome and the usability is clearly slanted towards Gnome.
- toran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd hope that Novell can hire people with better grammar than yours, BigDumbGuy. . .
- sailor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gnome is not as configurable, still doesn't have its own menu editor, conflicts with KDE and is slow/glitchy at times. I am not a fan.
mfearby, you can disable the "spatial" windows in Nautilus in the preferences. Go to your Home folder (via Nautilus) and under Edit, click on Preferences. Look on the Behaviour tab and you'll find the option to always open in a browser window - activate this option.
Any developer who thinks "spatial" windows (open new window each time)is a good idea, is IMO not using good judgement. Use Konqueror in "filemanagement" mode or change the settings on Nautilus. - mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0GNOME will never be usable as long as a new window is created every time you double-click on a folder. Maybe I've been avoiding this P.O.S. for too long, and perhaps they've managed to figure out how to load a folder in the same window by now, but everything about GNOME, and in particular, Nautilus, equates to the "lowest common denominator and no options for the computer literate". This sort of minimalist toy is best suited for "Linux for Kiddies".
- jtlangdon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, I believe this touches on a larger issue, and that is "The management at Novell." Many have asked "Is Jack Messman qualified to lead Novell?" I don't personally think so, but then again I don't believe that Ron Hovsepian is either. They are trying to drive Novell into a consulting based model when there are enough businesses running that model. What they need to do is let the SUSE developers loose, let them explore the full potential that SUSE has. Since Novell bought them development has practically halted, SUSE's market share has fallen, and Novell is in some potential disastrous places.
About the only thing that would save Novell is a complete management shakeup, new from the ground up. Probably a "White Knight" should come in and save a, once golden, brand and make it whole again. It wouldn't take much, right now. Wait and see how bad it gets. There are rumors, and tid bits all over about a new "big legal proceeding" coming up against them, based mainly on Breech of Contract and gross negligence. Which, from this example of leadership, is what one would expect from Jack Messman and crew. - dcollamore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, I have got to say this. I started using Linux with Red hat 5 (they carried it at wally-world at the time), and since then I have tried, sometimes for months at a time, just about every combination of distro and wm out there, and while I certainly found the KDE experience in Suse 9.3 and 10.0 to be superior to most other distributions, I always gravitate to Gnome. I find the interface much cleaner and simpler, and it doesn't feel like the WM is getting in my way in the same way KDE does. I know, I know...old school rivalry, flame war, whatever.
That having been said, it's always good to have at least one good KDE focused distro out there, to keep everyone honest ;). - mfaith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hurrah!
- nacs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice. Good to hear they're listening to their customers.
Because KDE pwns. - haakonn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have now used GNOME consistently and exclusively on my home computer for two months, just to be able to have an honest opinion. I'm now back with KDE, and it's such an amazing relief. Phew!
- scottym, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ummm.
Backpedals.
Yeah, Backpedalling... - Visceral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"smart move by novell. From what I've heard, KDE has (quite a few) more users than Gnome, so.."
I'm not sure if there are really any reliable figures on this, but one thing to consider is that there are a great deal more linux distros that are GNOME based than KDE based at this point. Also, KDE is a European product and tends to have much greater use there than here in the States and elsewhere. Having said that, both have good features but most companies doing linux work prefer GNOME because it's totally open source while KDE requires a qt license if you plan to ever sell your product. - jav1231, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Will it be KDE-centric or Gnome-centric? Again, they need to $hitcan Mono.
- rrittenhouse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Eww.
- BigDumbGuy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I work for Novell.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cuz some Diggers belive anything they hear.
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