GNOME Takes Over KDE
KDE, the well-known desktop environment known for its modern interface and powerful configuration options, was taken over by the GNOME Foundation.
???We will completely rewrite KDE to conform with GNOME User Interface Guidelines. We will strip all the unnecessary options, remove the plasmoids, the panel and the menu from KDE.???
GNOME spokesman said. He also added:
???We already have a team of developers hard at work on removing all unnecessary code from KDE, port it to GTK and keep only the basic applications. The login manager will only have one text entry now: the username (supplying a password may confuse users so we decided to remove it).???
In other news???
Linus on the Move
The community is shocked by the recent development of the situation regarding the direction of the Linux kernel, when Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux Kernel, decided to work for Microsoft and ditch Linux development: ???It’s time to switch???, bluntly explained Linus in an interview for a well-renowned Linux news site.
Wesnoth to Be Published on Steam
Battle for Wesnoth, the popular strategy game, will come to Steam this summer, switching to an additional purchases model. Only paying users who will gain premium status will have access to the more powerful units in the game. As such, ???units like the Loyalist Horseman or the Orcish Assassin will not be available for recruiting for normal users’, one of the developers says. As an added bonus, only the tutorial is available for online playing, while the campaigns and downloading of add-ons is now reserved to the privileged users who have a paid account.
???We believe the cash flow will greatly help future development of Wesnoth, and we think online playing is enough for the free accounts. Besides, nobody ever said you can’t win a game playing Loyalists without Horsemen or Heavy Infantry guys.???
The available factions still have at least three units for free accounts.
???There was a debate on whether we should make Bats available only for the paid version – they steal villages you know, and such advantage should only be given to our most trusty users – but finally we decided on leaving them alone – Undead are too crippled anyway.???
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