Originally posted by Honton
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Contributors: GNOME equal to KDE
Collapse
X
-
-
Originally posted by Honton View PostFour letters followed by one number. RHEL7. You should be happy for a free desktop to get this kind of support. Sure it is not what you prefer. There is no reason to get angry with me. Im no more than a messenger. The contributors did the real work on Gnome.
Now a lot of people are talking about KDE's code base bloating. This is a little misleading.
12 month stats kde gnome
Lines Added 7,574,841 lines 3,010,670 lines
Lines Removed 7,663,744 lines 2,358,901 lines
30 day stats kde gnome
Lines Added 363,214 lines 165,033 lines
Lines Removed 1,043,151 lines 148,504 lines
It seems gnome's LOC are going up, while KDE's are going slightly down.
Also, KDE's LOC are super inflated from what they truly are. Look at code locations.
Gnome: http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome/enlistments
KDE: http://www.ohloh.net/p/kde/enlistments
KDE has a lot more applications using it's hosting infrastructure. For example KDE has Calligra Office Suite, which is 1.4 million lines of code! That is included in the KDE count while gnome has no office suite hosted on it's git repos. The same with applications like Digikam (400k lines), kdenlive (100k lines, pitivi not on gnome repos). KDE hosts tons of Software, many different music players (juk, amarok). Video players (Kaffeine, dragon, bangarang). 2 different browser (rekonq, konqueror). KDE repos also have a mirror of the Qt repository. This mirror ALONE ADDS MILLIONS of lines to the count. Taking this in to account the code base is not as big as it seems.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Honton View PostSo what are you suggesting? Adding the complexity to the Shell because no one cares to do the house keeping?
The other problem with extensions, even if someone does maintain them, is that you have no idea whether they'll be installed on any random computer you use.
The solution to that, also, is to build a sane GUI in the first place.
Comment
-
Originally posted by danielnez1 View PostWhile I agree that consumers are exposed to UIs these days, I don't believe that is relevant to my point since if the GNOME Shell was truly an advancement in usability etc. it wouldn't received as much criticism as it has.
only because you see a lot of people complaining does not imply that they are the significant majority. usually people don't post in forums when they are happy with what they have.
considering several statistics i saw (sorry that i cannot come up with a link) seem to talk a different truth than you seem to think. i may be wrong, but your argument is insufficient.
Comment
-
Originally posted by n3wu53r View PostRedhat traditionally supports Gnome and GTK+. SUSE generally supports KDE and Qt is supported by it's parent company. Red Hat also acutally does contribute a bit to kde. Thene there is this new Blue Systems company which has hired several KDE devs to work on KDE. Both projects are getting corporate support.
Comment
-
Originally posted by a user View Postactually it seems that by far more people are happy about the new gnome shell than the old calssic mode (including me as i hate since over 15 years the widespread scheme of a task bar and start-menu-like stuff, widely used but very inefficient, while many better designs got lost due to people ignoring new ideas).
Comment
-
Originally posted by a user View Postonly because you see a lot of people complaining does not imply that they are the significant majority. usually people don't post in forums when they are happy with what they have.
considering several statistics i saw (sorry that i cannot come up with a link) seem to talk a different truth than you seem to think. i may be wrong, but your argument is insufficient.
After two years on the trot of hearing opinions GNOME 3 from Students' who know little about GNOME or Linux as opposed to fanboys, apologists etc. I'm more inclined to take on board the criticism they give rather than hyperbole.
Comment
Comment