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The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison (OSNews)
OSNews has posted a lengthy comparison
between the most popular desktop environments. "So many operating
systems and so many graphical desktop environments... This article is a
comparison of the UI and usability of several Desktop Environments (DEs),
that have been widely used, admired and reviled: Windows XP Luna, BeOS 6
(Dano/Zeta), Mac OS X Aqua and Unix's KDE and Gnome. Read on which one got
our best score on our long term test and usage."
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The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison (OSNews) Posted Mar 19, 2003 7:14 UTC (Wed) by mwh63 (guest, #321) [Link] That would be the "Definitive" comparison, would it not?
The author and her viewpoint and evaluation history Posted Mar 19, 2003 10:08 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] Ahh.. The famous, or infamous, depending on your view, Eugenia.. On the dot(dot.kde.org), her appearance often provokes flame wars, because she is so anti-KDE, or at least anti-current-KDE-goals. KDE has as a policy tended to make virtually everything configurable, which, naturally, leads to either layer upon layer of dig-down to get to the config option you want, or hundreds of top level config applets to choose from, both of which she dislikes. Thus, KDE and it's goals of very high user configurability will ALWAYS rate low with her, it CANNOT be gotten around. Same with integration, consistency, etc. Most of that stuff, which Gnome and KDE both got real low marks on, understandably, if that was to be evaluated, is difficult or nigh impossible on a multi-OS platform and one built on top of the OS, such as X is. Using her criteria, an open source, multi-platform environment, especially one that emphasizes high user configurability, is NEVER going to be able to score well. Of course, that's OK. It's her opinion, and she can weigh the various factors however she wishes. However, the more I've read of what she has to say, the more I tend to realize I disagree with a good portion thereof.
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