A look at GNOME 2.14, comparison to KDE

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 20 February 2006 15:17, jos poortvliet wrote:
> i think there is a difference between the amount of influence Trolltech and
> Suse have on KDE, versus the influence of Sun, Red Hat etc on Gnome.

yes, there certainly is much more corporate influence in GNOME development 
than KDE development, and by a very small number of companies at that.

but drawing conclusions from that fact to how people feel about usability or 
most anything else usually just doesn't hold any water.

sun pushed the writing of the GNOME HIG, but it was the GNOME community 
overall that embraced that document. to achieve something similar in KDE does 
not depend on corporate involvement (or lack thereof) but on a (small) group 
of people actually deciding to focus on that work.

perhaps you are considering the fact that sun, red hat, novell, etc.. can 
"force" their employees to do certain things. actually, i'm not sure how much 
of that actually happens in reality within the desktop work of those 
companies, but even if it does that is hardly a robust approach as the track 
record of the proprietary software industry can attest to.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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