[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Since then, a lot has changed. That doesn’t include
the difference in focus between Gnome and KDE – Matthias complained
Gnome builds a great user experience on inferior technology, KDE
creates super technology while not doing enough on usability. He’s
not wrong.“So KDE has created a very open culture which results in
innovation, experimentation and new technology. The user
experience, while more of a focus than in the KDE 3.x times, imho
still ain’t what it needs to be, might never be the way we
currently work. At least, the finishing touch is boring and hard to
do in such an open meritocracy.“How to create usable software
“You’d need a strongly design-driven development for a finished,
consistent experience, were developers follow a common vision laid
out by a few brilliant designers. And follow through on the boring
stuff. This simply doesn’t fit how we work – developers decide on
what happens to their applications and what they spend their free
time on.”