suse to standardise on gnome !

[anyweb]

that's right, novell suse is going to put it's energy and money into gnome

 

[/url][url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1882118,00.asp]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1882118,00.asp

 

Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line. 

KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME.

 

"The entire KDE graphical interface and product family will continue to be supported and delivered on OpenSuSE," said Mancusi-Ungaro.

 

In the past, Novell had explored creating a best of breed desktop, but these efforts came to little.

 

cheers

anyweb

[hybrid]

GNOME, eh? I've always been a bit of a KDE fan... :)

[xDamox]

GNOME is an excellent desktop :)

[hybrid]

I haven't got a problem with GNOME, I just haven't used it that much. :)

[znx]

quite a few distros are becoming gnome-centric, not a bad thing really, gnome still has the rounded edges that makes it good for noobs..

[hybrid]

quite a few distros are becoming gnome-centric, not a bad thing really, gnome still has the rounded edges that makes it good for noobs..

 

Yeah, this thread has prompted me to use GNOME for the past few days, and yes, it is very good. :)The GNOME Control Centre is a lot cleaner than the KDE one (much more noob-friendly), and most of the features I like about KDE are there or can be put in manually. I did have to set Klipper to run at startup, because doing PHP/MySQL development I tend to put lots of stuff on the clipboard :P .

 

SUSE's default GNOME installation doesn't look very pretty to begin with, that's why I didn't use it. A quick trip to [/url]http://gnome-look.org and [url=http://art.gnome.org]http://art.gnome.org made it look more 'polished'. It's nice to have eye-candy on your desktop. :)

[Bill]

The latest out of Provo says that they'll continue to support both desktops. Apparently the dustup was sufficient to make them reevaluate the Gnome-only move.

 

[/url][url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp

[kabifff]

The latest out of Provo says that they'll continue to support both desktops. Apparently the dustup was sufficient to make them reevaluate the Gnome-only move. 

[/url][url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp]http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp

 

Whew. That's a relief. I'm still so green at Linux, but I'm a big fan of KDE, even though it boots slower and such. I like the cartoony feel of it, plus my trackpad is a little more responsive under KDE.