heise.de — Novell has decided to support KDE in all of their products after all. Holger Dyroff, Vice President of Product Management at Novell, declared that the company had "after consulting with its customers decided to continue to make both GNOME and KDE available in all Novell products."
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jav1231Nov 12, 2005
Will it be KDE-centric or Gnome-centric? Again, they need to $hitcan Mono.
Closed AccountNov 12, 2005
BigDumbGuy, Fark cliches don't translate very well to Digg. :PMost people here are humorless nerds.
mfaithNov 12, 2005
hurrah!
mfearbyNov 13, 2005
GNOME 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".
jtlangdonNov 13, 2005
You 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.
hollyoakJan 2, 2006
"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.