Comments on: KDE 4.0

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:04:13 +0000

Uffda… more with the engineers…I just drank a cup of coffee. That does not mean that I drank all the coffee.KDE is [blablabla] for Linux != KDE is a [blablabla] that runs ONLY on Linux.So, !Wrong …!So, I have a friend who claims that whenever he wakes up in the morning, he holds up his two fingers on each hand, arms up in the air, and flexes the fingers in unison like he is making “air quotes.” This, the, applies to everything he says all day long.If we always have to specify which flavor of *nix perfectly matches our utterance when talking about software, we will always be writing errata. So, when I get up in the morning, I flex my fingers to mean “In some cases when mentioning “Linux” what I say may or may not apply to other similar systems such as Unix, and so on”OKAY?Jeezzzz…

By: Lassi Hippeläinen

Lassi Hippeläinen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:39:08 +0000

Another engineer here…”KDE is a Window Manager (no “s” in that Window, please note) for Linux.”Wrong. KDE isn’t for Linux only. It is also available, for example, for other *nixes, Sun Solaris, and (…drumroll…) MS Windows:http://www.kdelibs.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:23:14 +0000

crf: Yea, that too.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:07:08 +0000

JJ: Why do you always have to be such a judgmental ass? Oh, right, you’re an engineer.I chose window manager over desktop (as terms) because a) it is true … that is the main thing KDE does, and the other parts can be swapped in and out without it not being KDE and b) I am trying to avoid confusion. 90% of the people reading this post either i) already know what KDE is or ii) think a desktop is something other than what KDE and Gnome are.

By: crf

crf — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:14:21 +0000

He used the phrase window (with no ess) manager to emphasize that it isn’t a microsoft WINDOWS computer :p sheesh.

By: J. J. Ramsey

J. J. Ramsey — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:45:48 +0000

“KDE is a Window Manager”!!!I’m surprised that you wrote that. KDE obviously contains a window manager, but generally speaking, it’s called a desktop environment because it contains a file manager and other amenities that make it much easier to use than, say, TWM or even Window Maker, which are only window managers.I thought that you were enough of an old hand at Linux that this would have been obvious.