Paul Seelig wrote:
>
> There is the common misconception coined by the very term "Linux
> community", that the Linux users are a somewhat homogeneous crowd and
> you simply fell for that. The Linux crowd is IMHO by far the most
> heterogeneous bunch of computer users imageinable and this refelects
> in various aspects regarding choice of programs and GUI's used by each
> individuum. Doesn't this sound familiar? Like in: Some like Emacs,
> some prefer XEmacs to Emacs, other like vi and despise either Emacs,
> and yet someone other prefers vim or nvi over vi? The same goes for
> GUI's. While i actually agree to your observations i'm rather happy
> about the fact that all these choices are actually there. This is a
> very good thing.
Absolutely correct. For every 'WM' fan, you can find someone
else who is an 'E' fan or a fan of 'ICEWM', or, as in my case, is
still looking.
> [snip]
>
> The main interest in the KDE/GNOME stuff lies actually in the fact
> that they provide more or less a framework for easier application
> development. And both will only start to be really interesting in the
> Unix world when actual applications like KOffice, Gnumeric or AbiWord
> become available as actual release versions. But for this we still
> have to wait quite some more. In the mean time let all those kids
> play their desktop war games as if it was a DOOM death match... ;-)
>
Yes again. Its the GNOMEified apps that we are still missing.
--
Ed C.
