Who Gets Top Billing? GNOME or KDE? | Linux Today

Who Gets Top Billing? GNOME or KDE?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 25, 2008

“If you support multiple desktops, which one gets top billing?
Kind of like Lennon and McCartney (please tell me that most of my
readers are old enough to get the reference…), it doesn’t
really matter very much–there’s so much awesome in each one that
it’s just not possible to detract from the choices with an
arbitrary decision about which one should go first.

“There’s a discussion going on in the Factory mailing list about
how to arrange the desktop choices when a user installs openSUSE
11.0..”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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