| Project touts a "more usable" KDE |
Mar. 16, 2006
In an interview at TheModdingDen, core developer Emre Sokullu discusses SimpleKDE, a project that aims to produce a lightweight, user-friendly version of KDE. SimpleKDE was created because the standard KDE is "too cluttered and too bloated; and we want something faster, more simplistic and easier to use," Sokullu says.
The goals of SimpleKDE are listed as:- Providing a less-bloated, less-featured, but more usable fork of KDE
- Providing an easier Control Center
- Making speed improvements by dropping unnecessary features
- Optimizing KDE for higher performance
- Being more responsive to patches/improvements coming from the KDE community
To observe the differences for yourself, check out the mockups and screenshots sections of the SimpleKDE project website.
A KDE fork? "Oh. No."
DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a strong opinion about this "more usable fork of KDE" project.
"Oh. No. This is just what we don't need: Yet another Linux desktop fork," Vaughan-Nichols writes. "...they should be working on this within the KDE community, not from one step outside it."
Even though the SimpleKDE folks insist that they will keep their product compatible with Mother KDE, Vaughan-Nichols sees problems in the offing.
Read his full take on the SimpleKDE project here:
Repeat after me: No more Linux desktop forks
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