[ale] More Gnome/KDE bickering

[Jim]

On Saturday 24 August 2002 10:10 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> It seems that Slashdot is reporting on RedHat making a KDE theme for a
> beta release that replaced some of the default KDE images with stuff
> with RedHat logos pieces (the red hat, or course). Some KDE people are
> crying foul.

The changes are more egregious than just sticking in a few RedHat logos. 
RedHat is trying to remove completely any Gnome look or any KDE look. They 
are also stripping out applications that are the foundations of their 
respective windowing environments. KDE and Gnome developers have both done a 
lot to make their applications interoperate (although KDE is further along in 
that effort).  Now RedHat wants to pave over all of that just so they can 
stick their branding everywhere. The KDE variant that RedHat wants to ship 
will be missing Kmail and Konqueror and instead run Evolution and Mozilla. 
This not only breaks interoperability, it will force users to load into 
memory all of the libraries needed to run Gnome and KDE. From what I gather, 
some of the Gnome people are just as pissed as the KDE people are about this.


> The site is slashdotted, but some one posted links to screens shots in
> the comments section. I'm impressed! It looks really clean and sharp. I
> may have to look at playing with KDE (instead of gnome) for a while.

KDE consistently gets better votes than Gnome when users come to it fresh. 
It's easier for them to find things they need. I have just started to scratch 
the surface of KDE's interoperability. But their setup for printing is 
superior to anything else I have seen for UNIX. Together with CUPS interface, 
kprinter makes printing a breeze. RedHat's printer setup is extremely 
primitive by comparison.

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