Archive for the ‘KDE’ tag
KDE loses the acronym in new branding drive
Following in the footsteps of the GNOME Gnome team, KDE now just stands for KDE. Not the original Kool Desktop Environment. Not even the K Desktop Environment. Just KDE.
I’m not quite sure about renaming the core product, however (and as it turns out, neither is Thom or the Dot community). The desktop environment itself will be renamed “KDE Software Compilation”. It’s only a little wordy. Good luck catching on with that one.
Why I moved to Gnome
I’ve been a KDE user basically since I started using Linux. The Qt toolkit’s default theme was much more visually appealing than GTK+, KDE’s purple and silver (remember back when there was no blue to speak of in Kubuntu?) was a nicer mix than Ubuntu’s orange and brown, and the KDE apps were pretty awesome. Despite this, I’m now sitting here in front of a clean Ubuntu Intrepid install.
Ronnie Tucker on switching to Gnome
The last KDEer at Full Circle Magazine has left, now that editor Ronnie Tucker has finally gone Gnome. Of course, the only KDEers to begin with were Ronnie and I, so it’s not that amazing. Still, if you’re a KDE user a little fed up with KDE 4 (like me), check out Ronnie’s blog post on why he switched to Gnome.
