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KDE vs GNOMEKDE vs GNOMEPosted Nov 4, 2003 19:48 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)In reply to: KDE vs GNOME by dwalters Parent article: On Novell's acquisition of SUSE Or it can be the beginning of a merge between GNOME and KDE. The most likely scenario for the merge is creation of libraries that can be used in both GNOME and KDE and moving more and more functionality there. Both Ximian and SuSE employ hackers with strong influence in both GNOME and KDE communities.
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KDE vs GNOME Posted Nov 4, 2003 19:57 UTC (Tue) by bradh (subscriber, #2274) [Link] A lot of base libraries are already used by both KDE and Gnome (and othersystems) - for example most of the XML stuff. Doing the higher level libraries is much harder. Glib/GTK is fundamentally different to Qt as an object set. The only way I can see this is one team or the other abandoning their technology, and while a few people might switch, a whole-sale swapout is almost inconcievable.
KDE vs GNOME Posted Nov 5, 2003 7:53 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] Also, isn't Gnome written in standard C, while KDE is C++? That's a wholelanguage/programming culture difference, there! One other difference of interest.. While I use KDE on my desktop, I'm involved in PAN, the GTK based news client (not as a developer, yet.. but certainly as a regular on the PAN lists). PAN recently made use of the MSWormOS GTK libraries port to extend itself to the MSWormOS platform. That's something a KDE app could never do without serious costs involved, due to the license for Qt that's only free on the Linux/Unix side, but NOT on the MSWormOS side. I left MSWormOS behind when I switched, but there are potentially a lot of folks that could start their switch with apps such as Mozilla, OOo, and PAN, available on both platforms. That's a potentially large mind-share that gives Gnome a boost, over the apparently more popular in the *ix desktop world KDE. That too will provide an interesting catalyst if thrown into the mix with Novell perhaps helping to encourage a bit more liberalization of the Trolltech Qt license. As well, one can see where Novell would be wise to encourage it, as it could be a rather unpleasant pain in the side for them otherwise, given their MSWormOS platform mix at least presently. It could certainly prevent or discourage a lot of platform agnostic porting they might otherwise sponsor or at least encourage, if it weren't for the license issues. Duncan
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