A look at GNOME 2.14, comparison to KDE

[Micah Wylde]

On 2/20/06, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:

> And a large percentage of those have *choosen* it by their *own* will,
> and have not been ordered by their bosses or husbands to use it. There
> must be a reason for this, no? -- Can you imagine that a quite
> significant minority of KDE users are even "fans" for their desktop
> platform? And that this is mainly because of the power and of the
> configurability it provides to them?
>
"Alot of people like it, so there's no reason to change" is a ridiculous
argument against improving. Sure I may prefer kde over gnome, but that
doesn't mean that KDE is the pinnacle of desktop environments. And it is
also a fallacy to say that, because ours is more powerful, we can make the
interface as terrible as we want.

A full-featured and yet usuable interface is possible. We should be always
striving towards those goals, but not forsaking one for the other, and
certainly not ever doing as you suggest, and ceasing to improve because it's
popular.

--
Micah Wylde
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