KDE4.3 beta issues

[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 28 May 2009 07:10:28 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Arguing that KDE is not a desktop environment is extreme pedantry. Without KDE on my machine I have a command line. When I put KDE on it I have a desktop environment. KDE is therefore a desktop environment - I neither understand nor care about the esoteric developer arguments about why it's an 'umbrella'. See it from your user's point of view and you will understand.
> >
> 
> And what can you do with that desktop? Would you like a text editor? A
> file manager? A web browser? An office suite? A PIM application? A
> terminal editor? An audio application? Video? How about a development
> IDE? Maybe some games?
> 
> KDE includes all of that.
> 

Exactly. That's what I mean by a desktop environment - something that makes my computer useful; applications and an environment in which to run them. I think the problem actually is that we perhaps have different views on what constitutes a 'desktop enironment'.. so let's not go down that road :)

Mark

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