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Re: A sad state of affairs
by Stu Warsnap on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:14

> Don't get me wrong, but I see KDE project slowly dying.

With google's linux desktop supporting GTK, and now Openmoko also supporting GTK its not hard to think otherwise. GTK's LGPL license starts to show its advantages for companies.

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Re: A sad state of affairs
by Anon on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:25

"With google's linux desktop supporting GTK"

What "linux desktop" is this?

"and now Openmoko also supporting GTK"

Openmoko is just one of a long line of niche Linux devices that have supported GTK. Why should this one suddenly topple KDE?

"its not hard to think otherwise"

When a project averages around 9000 commits *per month*[1], and has so for several years, and is *still* consistently voted the best desktop[2] (by a huge margin) years after the major distros have adopted it's competitor as default, *and* which is about to make the initial release of a series that is likely to step it up another notch and which is now natively cross-platform, it's pretty hard to be worried.

Stop spreading FUD, please.

[1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=514945
[2] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&r=1&w=2

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Re: A sad state of affairs
by Anon on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:37

The citations [1] and [2] are transposed, of course :)

Oh, and:

"GTK's LGPL license starts to show its advantages for companies."

The LGPL has been showing its "advantages" for years, and yet somehow, inexplicably!, companies are still buying Qt licenses. Probably because they consider a natively cross-platform, top-quality and incredibly well documented and easy-to-use toolkit to be worth the tiny fraction of a developer's salary that constitutes a Qt license.

And anyway, since when do we care about what companies that intend to keep their apps closed do? They don't affect KDE one way or another.

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Re: A sad state of affairs
by LiquidFire on Friday 13/Jul/2007, @11:21

"What "linux desktop" is this?"

I'm guessing it refers to the recently-released Google Desktop Search for Linux, which uses GTK libraries: http://desktop.google.com/linux/

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