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Novell dumps KDE

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I hate being right.

When Novell bought both SuSE and Ximian, many critical minds including myself anticipated the worst. Many more, including SuSE VP of R&D and KDE e.V. member and assembly chair member of the 2005 meeting, Chris Schläger, denied it: we all love KDE.

Novell is committed to supporting both GNOME and KDE desktop environments in its Linux desktop.

Yada-yada. And:

I'm sure that we are going to sponsor KDE development in the future. We have (I think) sponsored every major KDE event, like we did with aKademy this year. So why should we stop now?! Novell is very much committed to KDE!

Well, apparently the word commitment has not just been redefined in divorce laws, but also in the world of software development. For it appears to be true after all, Novell practically dumps KDE for GNOME:

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.

Nice words, but they are way too little, too late. Isn't this exactly the kind of support Red Hat offered while they were making a complete mess of their KDE "support", even spawing the third-party kde-redhat project? I should really try that on a girlfriend sometime. No, I'm not dumping you honey, I'm making a strategical change in favour of the brunette on the corner.

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Now that Neil has switched to GNOME, I suddenly get tons of reminders why KDE is better and opportunities to post nice things again, such as my continued appreciation for kio_audiocd:

12/7/04 11:01 am kyappujira/Laptop Hawk: what will replace audiocd:/ for you?
12/7/04 11:01 am neil/GNOME: cdparanoia -S 56 -Bzv 1-
12/7/04 11:01 am neil/GNOME: nice oggenc *.wav; rm -f *.wav

Erm, okay. GNOME applications must be really bad people crawl back to the command line.

(And after having spent hours in The Gimp last night to update the live photos on the HorrorPops web site, I'm indeed quite happy not to use GTK+ applications too often.)

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