On Jul 28, 2012 8:30 AM, "Dexter Filmore" <Dexter.Filmore(a)gmx.de> wrote:
What we don't need is NOT a more powerful desktop,
what we need are more
powerful *programs*.
One thing I've wondered about users of desktops like TDE, is how many
people use the standard set of apps. I notice a lot of TDE development
seems to go toward the K* programs which I don't use (IM, email, editor,
etc), or use in a limited fashion (konqueror, for files), or I use the KDE4
version of (k3b, ktorrent).
Since I started off in Gnome rather than KDE 3.5, I got used to a lot of
those Gnome programs so have some from that, found some others when I
needed something, picked some up from LXDE, etc etc.. my system is a
frankenstein of the various UI libraries. I pretty much only use the
essentials of TDE, any major programs are something else.
My guess is that most users started off in KDE so they got used to all the
K* choices, or have only swapped out a very few. It's probably only people
like me that migrated from something else that pick and choose.
Jeff