[101139] in RedHat Linux List
Re: KDE and Qt to become completely opensource (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Tue Nov 24 20:26:47 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:24:45 -0600 (EST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <fred@usinternet.com>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Gordon Messmer wrote:
#
#While I think that this has been covered, I'd like to say (I didn't
#before) that I sincerly hope not. KDE 1.0 is a nightmare. I've
#introduced several of my coworkers to it, to quickly have them find
#bugs. My only explanation has been:
#I don't intend to have you run it all the time, it's just a stepping
#stone if you're not comfortable with other desktops.
#Charlie switched to afterstep the next day! Currently no one uses kde
#where I work. I don't want to discourage anyone, or spread FUD. I
#just don't think that KDE deserved the 1.0 when it got it.
#
Hmmm... I think this may be in the eye of the beholder. I recently
installed Afterstep (the other wm you mentioned) -- most recent stable
version -- and was completely unimpressed. Aside from various cosmetic
issues that are likewise subjective on my part, the thing tended to
eat CPU time: cycling from 5% to 25% or more. Meanwhile, some of the
included Afterstep apps wouldn't even compile out of the box.
KDE is certainly not perfect -- neither in functionality nor
appearance (I tried Afterstep because KDE is getting a bit
dull-looking to me) -- but nothing else is, either. Personally,
though, I think that KDE is mostly pretty solid (excepting kmail for
special disappointment).
Fred
"The road to tyranny, we must never forget,
is the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton,
15 Oct 1995 speech at the University of Connecticut
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