Egy külföldi fórumban foglalkoztak a kérdéssel: vajon a KDE4 a Gnome lassú kihalásához vezet-e.
Ott a következő bevezető volt mindehhez:
"Many of us here (or should I say most of us?) use the GNOME version of Ubuntu. GNOME is simple, looks elegant and, allegedly, gives better performance than KDE. It's philosophy of simplicity and the UNIX way of "one tool for one task" (no "Swiss army knives") has taken it quite far. But I think everybody here will agree that the GNOME project is not so open to new features, for which I don't blame them as adding bloat will violate their philosophy. But, even as a long time GNOME user, I believe that the future looks bleak for this DE as other projects catch up with it.
KDE4 has bee getting a lot of attention, and everybody is looking forward to it - even those who use GNOME. This new iteration actually removes several inconsistencies and adds features that are useful. Just this morning I read an article on Linux.com about the new Plasma framework (http://www.linux.com/feature/114560). Other noteworthy features are the Kross (http://kross.dipe.org/) scripting engine which will be available in most applications (including KOffice) and built in desktop and metadata search through Strigi, giving us a more "semantic" desktop.
The fact that KDE4 uses the new QT4 toolkit needs no mention. Also obvious are the numerous improvements to the UI, plus the Nautilus-inspired file manager Dolphin. According to rumours, we might also see Apple's WebKit (an improved (?) version of KHTML) making it as the default rendering engine in Konqueror. Compositing support will also be improved.
The GNOME2 and KDE3 series gave us desktops that could compete head-to-head with the Windows desktop, but the new KDE4 blows the new "improved" Vista interface right out of the water,
Some people might argue about GNOME being "lighter". I don't know how valid this argument is (I notice no difference in speeds) but for those who need something light, there's XFCE. XFCE, as it ships with Xubuntu, looks extremely nice right out of the box. The Thunar file manager is faster and, at lest in my opinion, much superior to Nautilus. XFCE offers pretty much all the functionality one can expect from a "light" DE, and more. I would go as far as to suggest that XFCE can very well replace GNOME as a DE. For those who want an even lighter system, we have Fluxbox, FVWM, Ion, Rox etc.
So here we have GNOME, the DE which, thanks to Ubuntu, had a seemingly large share of the Linux desktop, and expects to have 10% of the total desktop market share. It doesn't have the features of KDE4, neither is it as light as XFCE. The interface, compared to the KDE and XFCE interfaces, looks like a mutated cross between the Win95 and MacOSX desktop, only with bad icons and worse fonts. It does what it was built for nicely, but refuses to add new features to make the desktop experience fresher. It's seemingly stuck in the past, and any efforts to bring it up to the current standards are met with strong disapproval from the GNOME developers and long time users.
The question, then, is this : Will the release of KDE4 and it's wide adoption, which seems quite inevitable, make GNOME irrelevant? Or will it live on in some niche areas for several years before somebody decided to fork it and bring it into the 21st century?
I know I'll be switching to KDE4 the day it's released, even though I have so far supported GNOME on the forums as well as in real life. What about you?"
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