Rich.

• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @07:59

  I don't understand. KDE's marketing seems to be one of the best out there. Look at all those KDE users/zealots! Nearly all computer magazines who writes about Linux thinks that KDE is the only desktop for it. Most distros install KDE as default desktop. How can you say that the marketing is poor?

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• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Afrosheen on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @08:59

  The marketing is poor, it's true. The fact that alot of developers/magazines have nearly all their screen shots from KDE is due to KDE's stability. Gnome code has been buggy from the beginning (either that or Enlightenment, the old default WM, was full of bugs) and was quite unstable. Things have changed for Gnome since it began using Sawfish as it's admittedly excellent WM, but old time KDE users have even more to love about KDE2. In the Linux world, unlike the Windoze world, people like things for stability and functionality rather than PR. But I admit that KDE is in need of good PR. Who isn't?

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• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Dirk Manske on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @12:06

  The marketing from magazines was poor cause mostly they show the ugly default look. If they compared kde (1.x) with Windows they always said kde has _four_ virtual screens...

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• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Anonymous on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @22:36

  Doesn't it?

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• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Dirk Manske on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @01:09

  No. Using default settings kde have four screens. It is configurable (2 to 8).

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Speaking solely on my own behalf, I want to point out that there is a bigger picture involved here. The way I see it the KDE League is not set up to compete with GNOME; instead the KDE League is set up to promote KDE as a desktop standard. Let's not forget that the Open Sources desktops are still hovering around 5% of the PC desktop market, with an even lower market share on mobile devices. The goal is to tap in on the 95%, not to try to gain more market share of the 5%. Bear in mind that many of the KDE League members are also members of the GNOME Foundation.

I personally hope the two projects can coexist in harmony and provide all users of PCs, workstations and mobile devices excellent Open Source alternatives to the proprietary systems that currently dominate the PC and mobile device markets.

Groups like the KDE League will hopefully go a long way to help Open Source projects compete for the mindshare of all computing users against the marketing muscle that the proprietary software vendors can muster.