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Sad attitudeSad attitudePosted Dec 22, 2011 13:44 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: Sad attitude by sebas Parent article: Quotes of the week It seems to me, given that GNOME and KDE are both creating software to solve roughly the same set of problems ("provide a usable general-purpose desktop environment"), that the only way for them to not compete is for one of them to stop existing.
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Sad attitude Posted Dec 22, 2011 14:23 UTC (Thu) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]
Competing on a technical level is fine, I do honestly think it leads to better results in the end.
Competing in the political arena is just annoying, creates artificial barriers, hampers development of both alternatives (and combinations thereof, which is what most actual people are using) and serves no purpose but someone's own mistaken ego.
Sad attitude Posted Dec 22, 2011 19:13 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Running a conference focused on some specific desktop environment with good technical content and caring more about vertical integration is a technical choice.
Sad attitude Posted Dec 22, 2011 21:29 UTC (Thu) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]
Looking at [1], I get the impression that most KDE authors would be happy to find their work used in some useful place within a GNOME or XFCE branded desktop. Which seems sensible --- there are many benefits to building a uniform software stack, but I don't think limiting the chance for experimentation in how to implement each component is one of them.
[1] http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/softwarecompilatio...
Sad attitude Posted Dec 28, 2011 17:14 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
Projects should compete based on quality, not based on "vertical integration" or lock-in.
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