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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Frank Peters<frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> What does KDE, or Gnome for that matter, offer that a simple window |
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> manager cannot? I would claim that the benefits are all illusory. |
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> The user is deceived by the scintillating visual effects into believing |
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> that he possesses a tool extraordinaire. |
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Of course, if you're looking at KDE or Gnome as a simple window |
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manager they don't offer much over the others but their own look and |
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feel. And many people (me included) use it in that way. But there is |
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much more to KDE, it is an application development framework, a suite |
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of hundreds of applications, many integrated with each other (both |
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from a user's and developer's standpoint). And all the |
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semantic-desktop stuff that I still don't understand, but is |
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apparently supposed to be A Big Deal(tm). |
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