Ubuntu KDE

[Bryan Pizzuti]

You know what point this whole debate brings up?  There is NO ONE who is
working on making GNOME and KDE interoperate so smoothly that no one can
tell the difference.  As it's been said, each one has it's advantages and
disadvantages. And each one also has its own set of fanboys. And the
seperation between the two hurts those of us who just want the best working
apps (Gaim, qtparted, K3B, the GNOME taskbar, and the KDE control center) to
just work, instead of worrying "This is a GNOME app, have to change a GNOME
configuration. Oh this is a KDE app, where's the KDE configuration stuff?"

The first distribution that makes this a reality will probably wipe out all
the others. Probably by using their own set of control/config applications
that make modifications to both GNOME and KDE configurations, along with a
menu translator that makes sure applications get added to the proper menu
regardless, and a set fo themes and widgets that make both look nearly the
same, etc. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of clasqm
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:50 AM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Ubuntu KDE


I'll probably get excommunicated for saying this, but ...

>From the end-user's perspective, the difference between Gnome and KDE
is trivial. Yes, trivial, meaningless, nonsensical.

Want to start an app, click on the foot/gear icon to get a menu. Pick up an
icon, drag it to desktop. In all the things users do 99% of the time, the
two are functionally identical. It's not as if we were talking about
ratpoison or oroborus. And if there are some kapps you can't live without,
go on and apt-get them (I'm a Kword user myself
...)

I came to Ubuntu from Xandros, which is relentlessly KDE-centric. It took me
all of 10 minutes to adjust to the new way of doing things.
Maybe one day I'll use a KDE distro again, who knows? But I see no point in
chopping up Ubuntu to make a Kubuntu. If you want to make a new KDE distro,
go ahead, grap the Debian unstable tree and knock yourself out. But leave
Ubuntu out of it. They picked a DE and stuck with it, which IMHO is the
right approach.


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clasqm

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