I tasted to install the new KDE4…its not my first try and i m happy that the horrible bugs are fixed…
KDE4 is really beautiful…but thats not why i post this thread! Why is KDE just more “openSUSE-specific” …what i mean in KDE there are a lot of openSUSE-icons and labels…) Why there are not in GNOME too?
While openSUSE has always been considered desktop-nuetral, I think it has always had a bit of KDE bias. Not that GNOME was left out, but that KDE was really, “SUSEfied”. GNOME was certainly tweaked and customized, but it still looked a lot like, well, and tweaked and customized GNOME.
In fact, when I was running GNOME a while back, I made some changes like you reference myself;
for instance, I found a nice SUSE geeko logo (somewhere in the /usr/share maze; must have been from a help file) and replaced the goofy looking “shoe” in the GNOME theme with it.
To be honest, I don’t know why this is the case, as Novell’s SLED is very GNOME-centric, and there are a few GNOME devs at Novell, but as a KDE fan myself, I’m not complaining.
Because Novell bought the company Ximian…thats Miguel de Icaza`s company. De Icaza is the founder of GNOME…
openSUSE differs from other distributions in that, up to 11.1, it has allowed KDE3 and KDE4 to co-exist by using a hidden folder called .kde4 alongside the .kde folder. This means changing a lot of file paths in KDE4 (and some KDE3) files.
Because Novell bought the company Ximian…thats Miguel de Icaza`s company. De Icaza is the founder of GNOME.
By “I don’t know why this is the case”, I meant I don’t understand why **KDE **has not taken second place to GNOME on openSUSE; because as you said, the key GNOMErs are on Novells payroll. I guess Novell doesn’t strong arm openSUSE about the desktop. Which is a good thing. Again, I’m not complaining! 
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:16:01 +0000, zak89 wrote:
> because as you
> said, the key GNOMErs are on Novells payroll.
There are a fair number of people who came to Novell with the acquisition
of SuSE, and many people working for SuSE happen to work on/with KDE.
Jim
so, for openSUSE 11.1 for example, what is the best graphic interface?
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:06 +0000, ioask4it wrote:
> so, for openSUSE 11.1 for example, what is the best graphic interface?
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I’d create a new thread and ask this question… but might end up
in the soapbox (people are pretty opinionated).
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:06:01 +0000, ioask4it wrote:
> so, for openSUSE 11.1 for example, what is the best graphic interface?
That’s kinda like asking what colour car is the best.
Depends on what you like.
I use GNOME. I like GNOME. Some people use KDE3 and like it. Some
people use KDE4 and like it. Some use XFCE and like it.
Jim