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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Frank Peters<frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> What does KDE, or Gnome for that matter, offer that a simple window
> manager cannot? I would claim that the benefits are all illusory.
> The user is deceived by the scintillating visual effects into believing
> that he possesses a tool extraordinaire.
Of course, if you're looking at KDE or Gnome as a simple window
manager they don't offer much over the others but their own look and
feel. And many people (me included) use it in that way. But there is
much more to KDE, it is an application development framework, a suite
of hundreds of applications, many integrated with each other (both
from a user's and developer's standpoint). And all the
semantic-desktop stuff that I still don't understand, but is
apparently supposed to be A Big Deal(tm).