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Gnome and plasma merge, and thoughts on the limit of open source (lemmy.ml)
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Can we please have an official merge of KDE plasma and gnome?

I just installed fedora with the KDE plasma spin and kind of like it, but kind of don't. I like that it is so much more feature rich, all the little things like easily accessible clipboard history and nice overview of everything. On the other hand I like the feel of gnome, it feels snappier. But plasma seems like a more developed os compared to gnome. But gnome feels more fluid and is just so much more pretty compared to plasma! And it's more intuitive to me (still partial windows user though)

Am I the only one here? It would boost the Linux community so much if more projects would be merged and more people would work on it together. I totally get that not everyone has the same vision and has different ideas and wishes for software, and competition and alternatives are good. But on the other hand more people would work together on one goal :D And I think that a lot about open source projects. Due to the beautiful nature of being open, no one really leads projects or can merge and manage workforce on projects. So it feels to me like there is a certain limit, what open source reached yet and so many things feel a little unpolished because its not their goal to get many people to use it and earn a lot of money?

How do you feel about that?

It escalated a little, I'm sorry but I had those thoughts for a while now and would really appreciate some opinions on it :)

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Again, I don't see that happening at all. I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean exactly.

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you want me to list software assuming you either run gnome or plasma?
Articles presenting the choice in linux as being those 2 desktops alone?
And all of it with direct code linking systemd utilities as there is no alternative or use of more common functions.

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I don't see how that's relevant to what you've said before. You don't need Gnome or Plasma to use systemd libraries, and plus, application developers have the right to write software against whatever API they want, don't they? Especially if it's the ones from their own project. And trust me, nobody goes out of their way to write software that doesn't work on other desktops.

As for articles, of course articles by the Gnome or KDE project contributors are going to talk about those projects, and everyone else can write about whatever desktops they want. The reason is probably rather that they are the most popular desktops and most complete so new users are likely to want to start with them. And I doubt any serious articles aren't at least going to mention MATE, Cinnamon or Budgie.