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Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com)

Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Oct 10, 2008 2:24 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com) by dulles
Parent article: Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com)

You know, there's always KDE...


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Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Oct 10, 2008 3:53 UTC (Fri) by pradeeps (guest, #53816) [Link]

yes there is KDE(4). But like it or not it is fast loosing to Gnome IMHO.

OTOH may I suggest xfce4 :).

Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Oct 10, 2008 13:41 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

> But like it or not it is fast loosing to Gnome IMHO.

Well, Google disagrees

http://www.google.com/trends?q=kde%2C+gnome%2C+xfce&c...

Apparently GNOME generates _slightly_ more searches than KDE (since 2006), but that's it. The trend is for both to go slowly down. XFCE is very small in comparison.
Curiously, it looks like KDE is much more news-worthy than GNOME, starting also in 2006 (casuality?).

KDE v Gnome - statistics

Posted Oct 10, 2008 20:20 UTC (Fri) by RogerL (guest, #4046) [Link]

Statistics...
Try to search both of the terms.

There are other gnomes than GNOME... World of Warcraft, Garden...
But there are not many other kdes than KDE!

Interview: Miguel de Icaza (DesktopLinux.com)

Posted Oct 10, 2008 8:05 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

Yes, but please, you have to see the dilemma: *they're* obviously freaks because *they* named a desktop environment after the letter *K*. I'm sure you can't provide a logical response to *that* argument.

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