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Re: KDE and GNOME - some reality check..
Well, not to start any flame wars (hey, its friday), I agree with you
about KDE Vs. Gnome email u sent..
I'm subscribed and participating in KDE PR (Public Relations) mailing
list, and many times we want to push some PR stuff about KDE, but we
delay everything until we have something REAL code ready either in CVS
or files to give (eg. you can grab daily snapshots from KDE 2)
On the GNOME side, all I see is just .. PR publicity, and I'll give few
examples..
Easel - they're going to revolutionise the way Linux is being used and
it will be the most easy OS (and they also state it will be easier then
Mac). Reality: from the screenshots I cannot see anything that KDE 2
doesn't have.
Evolution - looks like a very good idea. BUT Miguel states that this
program will be able to connect to Microsoft Exchange server. Reality:
How many people who are not working in Microsoft knows the X.400 & X.500
protocols to communicate with Exchange servers? I looked for some info
about it few months ago and all the people I talked to said it was WAY
too complicated and gave up. So I hardly see Evolution comes out of the
prototype/hype idea..
Stability: I have tried numereous times all the Gnome Releases: 1.1,
October release, helix version, u name it - it took me something like an
hour to crash the entire GNOME enviroment (specially with all those cute
applets). On the KDE side I can say that I'm using my Linux machines
with KDE for months (already 5 months) and not a single crash!
CORBA: really nice idea for connecting objects. Go ahead and ask the KDE
& KOffice people about it and they'll laugh. Why? few months ago Koffice
did have CORBA inside, and it was a beautiful way to make your Pentium
500 behave as Pentium 100, so they have decided to remove the CORBA
parts from it and use DCOP (but you can still use CORBA on KDE
applications), so I really don't know how the latest GNOME will behave
on slow machines (Pentium 300 and slower machines)
Licensing: KDE 1.x problem with licensing was due to the QPL license.
This is behind us in QT 2.0 - even Linus torvalds calls they're new
license an open source.
I'm really sorry to see Miguels behavour on the KDE mailing lists. You
want to read the competitor mailing lists? fine, but don't insult people
there.. This is not a mature.
On the KDE side, you don't see the KDE jumping all over cause they
implement new features. Example - here is something which isn't
published yet (and probably will not be published). Have you seen KDE
Konqeuror supports SSL? you didn't? then look at:
http://devel-home.kde.org/~granroth/konq-crypto.png
These are just some thoughts.
Hetz
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