A recent study prepared by Evans Data concluded that KDE is the preferred desktop environment amongst Linux developers. 65% of the 600 surveyed said that they currently use KDE, against 56% for GNOME. Nicholas Petreley, Evans Data's Linux analyst, said "It is also interesting to note that KDE has taken a statistically significant lead in use and deployment after running neck and neck with GNOME for the past three years."
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> apparently they have 600+ desktops running Red Hat Linux... nice...
Of course, but being redhat, they are most likely using GNOME.
No way. KDE is stronger than you think. That's the only reason Redhat didn't get rid of it from their distribution... too many big customers are using KDE.
It wouldn't make much sense to them to move all their GUIs to Qt when they actually use Gnome, would it?
I had a problem on my red hat 9 last week. It complained about a serious error in Gconf, and since then all my gnome applications crash when I try to access them. I can't understand why GNOME guys used a windows-registry-like approach, since windows registry is a real (and undocumented ;-) mess. That's why I prefer KDE, and each new version of KDE makes me believe that it going to be the ***MAIN*** linux desktop. GNOME is nice, but needs a lot of work and efforts to be compared to KDE.
Just because M$'s Registry implementation has flaws does not mean one could not create good implmentation. Indeed, it is the only sensible way to go to enable network wide configuration...