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On 21 December 2006 04:32, Jeff Rollin wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> A discussion on the staff blogs over at OSNews about the Linux desktop |
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> got me thinking. Thom and Eugenia seem to think that "the linux |
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> desktop peaked in 2001-2004", but I don't remember the hype around |
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> Ubuntu starting till well after that. Their argument seemed to be that |
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> because GNOME is running into problems and because KDE is behind |
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> schedule, the Linux desktop is dead. |
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What is this? First, Gentoo is thought to be unhealthy and now the whole Linux |
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desktop is dead! Are people getting frustrated with the festive season and |
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make up news about imminent catastrophes? |
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I can not and will not comment on GNOME. Why is KDE behind schedule? Its next |
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release, 3.5.6, is in feature, documentation and message freeze. It will be |
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tagged in SVN on 15.01.2007. Sounds on schedule to me. |
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Or is it about KDE4? AFAIK, there isn't even a complete road map to version 4 |
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yet. No complete schedule means it can not be behind schedule. KDE's |
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libraries have been ported to Qt4. Some apps are ported to the new libraries. |
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Others will follow. A second developer snapshot was released in November. All |
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the new technologies like Plasma, Solid, Decibel, Phonon and what not are on |
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their way. So? |
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Even if KDE were behind, how does that kill the Linux desktop? We just had to |
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wait a wee bit longer before we could get our hands on those new |
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technologies. KDE4 will happen in 2007, probably in its first half. Does it |
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really matter whether it is released in March of June? Or even in September? |
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I don't get it. |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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