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Originally posted by Honton View PostFirst of all let's be clear about one thing. The Gnome camp are the only DE intending to use the Wayland protocol as it was designed. KDE is already way ahead of bending intentions of the protocol. This will end bad.
Wayland is the library and protocol. Weston is a design reference compositor. It's somewhat like ARM's Mali core getting replaced. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, ARM and Wayland both were designed with that sort of modularity in mind.
Originally posted by Honton View PostThere is a large common pool of people who do Wayland and GTK hacking, so it really does not make sense to say GTK supports Wayland. Wayland and GTK are developed in conjunction by the very same people.
Originally posted by Honton View PostAll your critism of Gnome are really minor and can be fixed or mitigated. I know because I do that myself.
In Gnome's case, I just prefer the alternatives. My work flow isn't terribly affected regardless of what I use so it's a matter of convenience. I find Gnome3 clunky and uncomfortable in the same way I find Unity silly. When I can, I prefer E17 since I can tweak it just the way I like and I'm mostly content with it's design. But overall anything ranging from Openbox or Awesome to KDE works fine for me. I previously worked around some of Gnome3 issues using extensions and such, but I could never get it right like I can in E17. Again, it's all personal and I'm sure some people like the new Gnome, I'm just not one of them.
Originally posted by Honton View PostFinding corporate support for other DEs are a much much tougher task.
KDE: http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php
EFL: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p.../sponsors&l=en
More so, both also receive indirect support. The EFL is indirectly supported by Intel through Tizen while KDE stands on Qt's shoulders.
And while I eschew on the validity of this corporate support notion, EFL's developing stuff is on Samsung's payroll. EFL\Tizen isn't just some project they support but rather a part of their product line tooling. Besides the cellular lines, Samsung is putting Tizen on anything from cameras and cars, to refrigerators. Even KDE's Qt is a product for a company. Intel on the other hand, has no direct invested interests in Gnome as far as I can tell. None of their products actually uses it so if there is any rational in supporting it, it's to mitigate Microsoft's hold on servers in small businesses by offering a comfortable linux alternative so they won't end up dependent on them. i.e. hedging their bets...
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