Daniel wrote:
| Bryce, | | Just curious. What is that makes you move over to KDE?
I could write an article on this.... and probably will. Those that
know me on or off this list, know I'm about has hard core GNU guy as
there is. However, after nearly 3 years of fending off a move to
KDE. First for licensing issues in Qt, then to politics of Shaun
Gordon and The Kompany and then out of loyalty to GNU.
Simply put. I have had enough. The gnome developers insist on
mimicking Microsoft. This includes making poor choices that are the
bane of Microsoft operating systems today. I got sick of losing all
my desktop settings regularly because of the satan called gConf. I
got sick of 100 instances of bonobo objects just to run a simple mail
program. I was sick of having to "hack" every setting. Doing command
line changes to change fonts or configure a theme is unacceptable. I
used to like it (and I still like the fact that its a CHOICE).
However, the new Gnome regime thinks the desktop user is dumb and will
never want to configure anything. So they have left out any sane way
to do so. Just two days ago I went over the edge, when in GNU
Enterprise Navigator tool I found our GNOME menu support was broken in
gnome2. I went to research why and that was enough to tell me GNOME
is terminally and fatally screwed.
I spent half a day switching to KDE and configuring it. All I can say
is WOW!!! It is a users wet dream, but like the GNOME of old it still
lets a power user hack around in it. I got all my "fonts" working for
GTK2 applications in KDE3. I am loving KDE and have no plans of
switching back....
I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird / Calendar for Mail Tasks and am
loving them as well. Sadly, Ximian has taken making money as priority
over their ideals and in doing so have drug some of GNOME down with
them. Hopefully, enough people will make the switch and the best
hackers will re-align to where they once were. I love the GNOME team
and I hope they can wow me with some future release, but until then...
Where do I send my monthly donation to KDE League....
For those that REALLY know me. You know this is a major thing. :)
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