Interesting article

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7730

No Spam wrote:
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> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7730
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The problem as I see it is that Linux needs a good DeskTop to succeed on 
the desktop.

I have not run GNOME lately, and perhaps it is good.  I have used some 
of their multimedia apps because KDE 3.x.y was still dependent on aRts 
which new versions of GLib break, and I found them to be OK.  IAC, 
someone else can review GNOME.  But, most people prefer KDE and that is 
a problem.

KDE has a serious problem.  It appears to be written by very talented 
GUI programmers but they lack the needed self discipline to be good 
software engineers.  I see two results:

1.  There are times where not enough attention is given to the 
underlying program -- the code underneath the GUI -- and as a result 
some thing simply don't work.

2.  KDE is never finished.  It is always +/- 90% done because whenever 
it gets to that point, they add more new stuff and with it new bugs. 
They fix a lot of bugs but many bugs never get fixed.  With some work on 
fixing the bugs, KDE-3.6.0 could be the best DeskTop.  But, the bugs 
don't get fixed.  There are serious regressions in 3.5.y and I am told 
that they won't be fixed because they are working on KDE-4.0.0.

-- 
JRT