Re: My Article on KDE 4

Hi Jos

Thanks for your comments. Most of the information presented was derived from
KDE mailing lists and Techbase. For example the language support id derived
from
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#Other_programming_languages .
And the same goes for GNOME. I agree that I should have consulted the team
first and get the facts straight.

Anyways to remedy this situation I am planning to write an article on "KDE
Project Myths and Facts" to clear out the misconception that people have
about KDE Project in whole. KDE has grown into a larger project with many
goals and directions. Most of the people (even some distros) refer KDE as K
Desktop Environment. I am taking the step here and will try to sort out as
many misconceptions that is spread.   If you (and other kde-promo members)
have anything special in your mind that you want to cover please let me know
I will make sure that I include it in the feature.

Regards
Kunal Deo

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 September 2010 09:15:12 Kunal Deo wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have recently written an article about KDE 4 and GNOME. Both from user
> > point of view and a developer's point of view. Also, I think this article
> > could be linked from KDE.org as well.
> >
> > http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/gnome-vs-kde/
> >
> http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/kde-gnome-cross-desktop-development/
> >
> >
>
> Very good articles, thanks for writing them. Besides what Nuno said (both
> screenshots aren't very 'official', the GNOME one is from Ubuntu which
> heavily modifies GNOME and the KDE one is without desktop effects and has
> some non-stock artwork) let me comment a bit on both of them.
>
> http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/features/gnome-vs-kde/
>
> It might be interesting to note that GNOME and KDE seem to have switched
> places a few times during development. KDE 1 had more of an usability focus,
> due to Matthias Ettrich focussing on that. KDE 2 and 3 focussed more on
> features. GNOME lost that feature race, and turned around (in part thanks to
> SUN investment) towards usability with the 2 series. KDE then turned around
> with the KDE 4 series to look more at usability (while indeed moving
> technology and innovating), while GNOME with GNOME 3 tries to innovate with
> the GNOME shell again.
>
> Their development filosophy is very different: see esp GNOME Shell and
> Plasma for this difference.
>
> Plasma is very much a technology to build desktops upon. It is very
> flexible but the developers choose to re-implement a 'traditional' desktop
> first, to focus on the Plasma Netbook and Mobile interfaces later. The goal
> of Plasma is to allow developers to easily hack and extend it - every
> component is separate and can be replaced with a new one. You can do that in
> a variety of languages - javascript and C++ are recommended but Python, Ruby
> and C# are supported too. And these components, be it widgets, panels or
> backgrounds, work everywhere as they are aware of their surroundings thanks
> to the powerful architecture. GNOME Shell on the other hand is very much a
> 'static' solution implementing the GNOME vision of a good desktop. It can be
> hacked and extended but that is NOT the primary focus. It is written in
> Javascript only, has no widget and barely any applet support - it does what
> it does, but does it well.
>
> The part about supported languages is wrong: both KDE and GNOME support
> many languages. You can write KDE apps in Python, Ruby, C# and Java - there
> are good bindings. Plasma Widgets in particularly can easily be written with
> Javascript.
>
> I think you should note that KDE is technically years ahead of MAC and
> Windows - so obviously also compared to GNOME. The KDE core technologies
> have been adopted in the industry, often through rewrites (D-BUS) but also
> directly through further development (WebKit is based on KHTML).
>
> GNOME has the strongest accessability support, KDE is playing catch-up
> there.
>
> Obviously you can mix the apps from both environments. KDE's Plasma
> Desktop/Netbook/Mobile can work fine with GNOME apps, and GNOME Shell and
> the old GNOME Pannel work fine with KDE apps.
>
> http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/kde-gnome-cross-desktop-development/
> Nice, no comments ;-)
>
>


-- 
Kunal Deo
http://kunaldeo.blogspot.com

 
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