Ubuntu 8.04 and KDE

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 29 December 2007, Bruce Bales wrote:

> I ran across this link and didn't find anything about it in the latest
> postings on this list.  Maybe I missed it a while back.

It has come up.

> Makes me sad if this means we won't be using a fully supported release next
> year, or am I reading it wrong?  I really prefer KDE to Gnome.

I love how that article ends "All this overlapping work on KDE and GNOME could 
be put to better use, matching or beating the innovation and performance of 
proprietary operating-system interfaces."

I agree completely, but the problem is nobody will ever agree on which project 
is a monumental waste of effort.

Of course it's GNOME, but you don't have to look far to find people who would 
argue that point to the bitter end.  (Like 2/3 of the people using Ubuntu and 
its variants for starters.)

The bottom line is that if one project or the other decided to cease 
development, the newly "unemployed" volunteer developers would not move over 
to the other side anyway.  We work on whatever we love, and you don't just 
swap in one love for another.  The game doesn't work that way.
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D. Michael McIntyre