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Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld)Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld)Posted May 11, 2004 1:09 UTC (Tue) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)In reply to: Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld) by job Parent article: Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld) You obviously have no idea of what your talking about. GNOME components can dock and open documents in other applications, and have had that capability since 1.4 was released about three years ago (when for example AbiWord could open email attachments inline right in the Evolution window). As for "Web browser, mail, media player..." when was the last time you used GNOME, five years ago? Yes, there are a couple of areas where KDE is more advanced than GNOME. For example, Anjuta is just now starting to catch up to KDevelop. On the other hand, Glade had a loadable graphically-editable XML user interface definition long before it came to KDE (which in turn is of course years ahead of Windows, but that's another matter), and GStreamer and its derivative applications are so much farther advanced than anything in KDE, there's just no point in comparing. Please either tell us about some real KDE innovations missing in GNOME, or else don't make yourself look so bad by pretending to know something when you don't have a clue.
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Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld) Posted May 11, 2004 13:53 UTC (Tue) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] When I read that post again, it came out all wrong. I'm sorry, I didn'tmean to bash any software in particular. My point is that these reviews are of the "install and review" type. What the desktop looks like isn't terribly important, it's what you as an end user can do with it that is. If you want to demonstrate the capabilities of a desktop, I think you may have better luck with a complete desktop. The problem with Gnome/Evolution isn't at all technical in nature -- it's that the calendar isn't the "Gnome" calendar and the addressbook isn't the "Gnome" addressbook, you don't save passwords in all programs with a common UI etc. (I prefer not to use the word "innovation" as it isn't. The end user want something that works, not something thats "new".)
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