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Re: Complaining.
by cw on Tuesday 09/May/2006, @09:40

> PS. I use Ubuntu and now prefer GNOME. Before Ubuntu I actually liked KDE
> better. Maybe Kubuntu can make people give KDE another try.

That's a strange and a bot twisted way of looking at things, since according to all apparencies the sole purpose of Kubuntu is making KDE users give Ubuntu a try. And since there are lots of these KDE users out there, it certainly looks like a trap. My question is whether Kubuntu is still a promotional trap (take this word lightly), or certain things have changed. Up to this point nothing has changed, strictly speaking not even Shipit, which will only be available for Kubuntu in the (admittedly near) future.

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Re: Complaining.
by Simon Edwards on Tuesday 09/May/2006, @09:48

> That's a strange and a bot twisted way of looking at things, since according
> to all apparencies the sole purpose of Kubuntu is making KDE users give
> Ubuntu a try.

What a load of crap. Give it a rest cw. The "kubuntu is a gateway drug for Ubuntu usage" theory doesn't hold any water at all. The Gnome desktop isn't even offered as an option when installing Kubuntu.

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Re: Complaining.
by cw on Tuesday 09/May/2006, @10:50

I've never said 'gateway drug', I just got carried away with this because I don't understand the Kubuntu project's role within Ubuntu, neither technically nor politically, and it seems that no one is able or willing to explain it. Of course I don't suspect a conspiracy, but I do suspect a serious lack of overall direction, and I was hoping that maybe I'm wrong.

However the most encouraging answers that I've got have been along the lines of 'be patient, the real news is secret for now'. And since I can afford being patient, I will. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Re: Complaining.
by Anonymous on Monday 29/May/2006, @07:16

> 'be patient, the real news is secret for now'

I'm not sure, if secrecy is any good for _Open_ Source projects.

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Re: Complaining.
by gardion on Tuesday 09/May/2006, @10:14

Actually one of the main reason I switched to Gnome was that Ubuntu made GNOME very clean on the desktop and cleaned up a lot of the menus. KDE had seemed a lot more cluttered in terms of menu items. My hope is that Kubuntu & KDE clean up a lot of the less useful menu entries and gives a much cleaner desktop to start with.

Secondly if Mark is trying to get KDE users to swtich to GNOME, then he is a fool. He is much better targeting windows users (90-95% of the destkop market) rather than kde users (<1% of the desktop market). If you look at the number 1 bug on gnome you will see that Mark is targeting windows users. He is trying to get them to swtich to Linux and using ubuntu / kubuntu as a platform for other linux distributions.

Finally you can always use Mepis a KDE/kubuntu based distribution, if you are concerned about being pushed into gnome. Mepis is definatly a KDE based distribution and it is number 4 on distro watch in the last month, scoring higher then Kubuntu.

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