That much?

That much?

Posted Oct 30, 2004 15:41 UTC (Sat) by Algol (guest, #2681)
In reply to: That much? by hingo
Parent article: KDE and the Linux Journal 2004 Readers' Choice Awards (KDE.News)

Not trying to troll or anything, this is a very generalised picture.

I have no idea what the user ratio between the two desktops are, but generally GTK is the efficient and the slim way of programming (that's why mandrake uses gtk for frontend in their controlcenter, even though I think most of the work that *screwed* you was done in perl or some other scripting language) while QT is a little bit more bloated.

QT on the other hand is easier to program in, you get a lot "for free", and it's in semi c++ instead of c, so it gives some further possibilities.

I think that "elitistic" programmers will chose gnome in front of KDE, given that it's more efficient, while newbie programmers (or people who likes OOP more than hardcore C) will chose KDE. I suppose that is why KDE is more eyecandy and gnome is cleaner. I also think this is why more new utils are done by home-users in KDE, filling out gaps for other home-users (check kde-apps.org), while larger commercial projects tend to chose GTK (mozilla and evolution). IBM and redhat backing GTK is probably another big factor.

Shrug

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