targeted users

targeted users

Posted Oct 31, 2004 8:26 UTC (Sun) by hingo (subscriber, #14792)
In reply to: targeted users by louie
Parent article: KDE and the Linux Journal 2004 Readers' Choice Awards (KDE.News)

But this is exactly what surprised me, because I've always seen KDE as the desktop that is more "newbie-friendly" and GNOME's design decisions to me seem to be based on a philosophy of doing things the way they have always been done in the Unix world (an example is GIMP opening n number of different windows, instead of one window with many dialogs). The problem is, there is a reason why 99% of people use Windows and nobody has been using Unix for desktop purposes (except universities). That's why "user-friendly" distributions like Corel, Xandros, Linspire always use KDE.

But it's true that the talk in the GNOME camp has recently been the way you said, it will be interesting to see where it leads. Personally I'm glad that KDE doesn't do this spatial-filemanager thing, but if that turns out to be the next big thing, it's good to know that it is available for Linux.

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