Re:Qt 5.10 released
by whateveruser on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:09PM
(#15871768)
Could also be that Red Hat has a lot of devs on Gnome. That means more contributions, which means greater control over project's direction, the only way that can happen in OSS. And with corporate backing comes faith from many people. Also Debian defaulted to Gnome since v1(?). So did Ubuntu(mostly). KDE is very much a community project despite considerable resources from SUSE and few other corporate entities. Add to it Gnome's almost fixed 6 month churn and it becomes a pretty enticing choice for organizations having to support that piece of software for 5+ years.
And you will also find that while KDE devs stay without their on sphere for the most part, Gnome devs "dives the stack".
Meaning that you will just as often find them working on something under the Freedesktop banner, but with a massive Gnome slant, as on Gnome proper.
In other words while KDE devs have a clear understanding of where the DE ends and the rest of the OS begins, Gnome devs seems to consider everything above the kernel (and is likely biding their time for the day Torvalds steps down) the domain of Gnome.
Re:Qt 5.10 released
by blattimwind on Thursday December 07, 2017 @02:42PM
(#15873317)
Debian was initially released before either Linux desktop.
Re:Qt 5.10 released
by whateveruser on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:37AM
(#15878269)
Hence the question mark. What did Debian have for v1 then?
What Kubuntu version do you use? I've had the same thoughts as you about KDE vs. GNOME in the past (at earlier versions though, don't know about how they stack up currently).
I run Kubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Thanks for the info.
I use KDE Neon, it has the latest Ubuntu LTS as base but with latest KDE. See http://neon.kde.org/
I've always preferred KDE to GNOME because I feel it is higher quality desktop environment, but I will be the first to acknowledge KDE mucked up around KDE 4 and even today there are weird glitches in the vastly improved KDE5. That said, I still run Kubuntu because I feel it continues to be better than Ubuntu (GNOME), and I can live with the little annoyances.