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KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 31, 2009 21:14 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software by kov
Parent article: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

KDE will indeed probably be more popular with people who use a computer
regularly (for example those working in offices) and Gnome is more for the
casual grandma who checks mail once a month.

Then again, that might change. Gnome really needs to change stuff to get
development going again. Seeing how much time many KDE devs spend thinking
about usability makes me expect KDE to start doing much better in that
regard. 4.2 is already a clear testament to that, btw.

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Posted Feb 2, 2009 12:18 UTC (Mon) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

In the desktop world there are 11 kinds of people.

There are those who think that having multiple desktop environment projects is counterproductive: a waste of valuable developer resources, and therefore a suboptimal user experience.

There are those who think that having multiple desktop environments means healthy competition between groups of developers competing for (one or two of) speed, features and stability, and therefore, ultimately, a better user experience.

And there are those who think that grandma should partake in the peeing contest.