Re:no offense but...
by Anonymous Coward on 12:47 PM October 16th, 2001 (Score:0, Troll)

I partly agree. The core of GNOME is suffering from a lot of rot, and nobody
seems to care about fixing it. Red Hat certainly doesn't. Ximian did care, but
were sort of overruled on the push to get GNOME 2.0 out quickly. And now it
seems they are mostly giving up on one potentially dead-end project (GNOME) to
focus on another certain dead-end project (Mono). Eazel kept people interested
in GNOME for a while, but now that they're tits up, Konqueror has been able to
catch up with Nautilus in many respects.

That leaves Sun. Having GNOME be the default desktop on Solaris was supposed to
be a big thing, but now Sun seems to be walking away from that too. Maybe they
finally realized that people buy Solaris for reasons other than a friendly
desktop environment. I mean, if they managed to get by for the last five years
on a partially broken implementation of the Worst Desktop Ever (TM), not
shipping GNOME is probably not going to hurt them. Besides, their primary
competitors ship with the same or worse crap, and anybody who cares installs
another WM.

So where does that leave GNOME? In the crapper is my guess. I think GTK will
live on for a while, but the rest of GNOME is going to die off. If Red Hat and
Ximian don't care enough to concentrate their effort on GNOME, who does? At
this point, GNOME only has a few advantages left over KDE: prettier icons &
themes, better office apps (Abiword, Gnumeric, Evolution, etc.), and a smaller
memory footprint. But at the rate KDE is progressing, GNOME is going to be
eating dust before long.

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