[vox] KDE's Future?

Mark K. Kim vox@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:12:18 -0800 (PST)


Novelle says they're leaving SuSE alone, including KDE... for now
anyway.  From Slashdot:

   http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/12/1841213.shtml?tid=106

-Mark

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert G. Scofield wrote:

> Forgive me if this has already been discussed.  I'm usually the last one to
> learn about such things.
>
> I've just learned that Novell bought SuSE.  I've recently switched to SuSE.  I
> did so for a couple of reasons, but part of the decision had to do with using
> a distro committed to KDE.  And I was told that there are developers who work
> on both SuSE and KDE.
>
> But I've just learned that before buying SuSE, Novell bought Ximian.  The SuSE
> website has a piece on all this.  It says good things about both KDE and
> GNOME, but also says that Novell/SuSE will be evaluating the issue of desktop
> GUI's in the coming months.
>
> Does anyone feel that SuSE will tend more toward GNOME, and if so that this
> will be a problem for KDE's viability?
>
> Bob
>
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