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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Mar 31, 2012 1:09 UTC (Sat) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by slashdot
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

> it's not a traditional desktop UI, but GNOME 3/KDE/Unity also aren't

KDE isn't a traditional desktop UI? How so? (Remember, Plasma Active is a KDE-based "desktop shell" for mobile devices that is completely separate from the traditional Plasma Desktop.)


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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 1, 2012 23:19 UTC (Sun) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

I think in practice, KDE tackles this issue better, separating the design of the desktop and mobile UXes. Gnome and Unity for some reason decided to merge them into one, which is a questionable approach, since "one size fits all" usually doesn't work so well.

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 2, 2012 13:38 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

Funny, "one size fits all" seems to be the GNOME mantra for many years.

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