KDE vs GNOME
9:59am, 28th February 2008
Kubuntu 8.04 will mini-fork for KDE 4. I’m not sure I like the way this is going. The commercially supported, stable, feature-complete Kubuntu-KDE3 may draw users away from the still-experimental Kubuntu-KDE4, denying KDE 4.0.1 the extended testing that it needs. But then what choice do they have? Not many people are going to use KDE 4.0.1 anyway if it’s not finished.
The 3-to-4 transition is going to get worse before it gets better. KDE 4 won’t be properly stable until at least 4.1 in July, and won’t reach feature parity with KDE 3 until at least 4.2 in November or later. That will be 3 years since the first release of KDE 3.5, and 3 years is a long time for ordinary KDE users to wait for a new release.
The same thing happened to GNOME back in 2002 when they stripped all functionality from 1.4 and effectively started again with 2.0. I switched to KDE back then. I’d now be tempted to switch back to GNOME - and with it, the more polished Ubuntu - if it wasn’t for apps like Amarok and the promise of future awesomeness from what KDE 4 will still hopefully become.
You can run Amorak in GNOME, fool.
You can run it in Windows too! But KDE apps have a certain synergy with KDE itself - Amarok, for example, will make Konqueror show album covers instead of folder icons.
I’ve used both Gnome and Kde and i used to champion KDE no matter what but when i decided to just take my defaut ubuntu installation and no add KDE…i actually started to like Gnome as a stable and more reliable desktop environment which happens to never fail me…KDE is honestly bloated and will always be….KDE 4 is impressive looking but Gnome would make better progress than KDE any day…
I uses Gnome and KDE and finally switch fully to Gnome. I just love Gnome and it “control-center” plus the freedom of theming. I also tried KDE 4.0.x and find it’s cool too, however for the time i will stick to Gnome. Anyway, whether it’s KDE or Gnome, one thing for sure, compiz-fusion works well with them and that is important to me as i love the 3D and others effect…….
yep, i use gnome too.
for the time being kde 3.x and gnome 2.22 are good. i had tried kde4 but it needs much time (at least 1 year) and effort before being feature perfect.