Fifteen years of KDE [LWN.net]

Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 21, 2011 13:31 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: Fifteen years of KDE by boudewijn
Parent article: Fifteen years of KDE

Debian's popularity contest (popcon.debian.org) reports 25 % of participants having installed the "gnome" package, 5 % installed "xfce4", 3 % have "kde-full", and 2 % selected "lxde-core".

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Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 21, 2011 15:54 UTC (Fri) by mgraesslin (subscriber, #78959) [Link]

kde-full is a meta-package for complete KDE Software Compilation. It is rather useless to measure "kde". I as a Plasma Core developer running debian testing do not have it installed.

Measuring is for KDE of course rather difficult as KDE produces so many different products, just think of Krita compared to Plasma.

Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 25, 2011 6:55 UTC (Tue) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

> kde-full is a meta-package for complete KDE Software Compilation.

I am aware of that. So are the other packages mentioned. (Though xfce4 and lxde-core, by their nature, pull in rather less stuff.)

I linked to the source, so you can select other packages and draw your own conclusions. Comparing "gnome-desktop-environment" (30 %) to "kde-plasma-desktop" (8 %) paints a less extreme picture.

Fifteen years of KDE

Posted Oct 27, 2011 10:24 UTC (Thu) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]

Last time I checked at linuxquestions KDE was on pair with Gnome. Gnome was so popular, because of Ubuntu and KDE 4.0. Today we have gnome3 mess, Unity and rock stable and polished KDE 4.7.2. Because of these I bet Gnome is less than 20% now.