KDE4: The Future of the X Desktop?
The biggest issue keeping the X desktop from feeling like a polished system is the presence of multiple desktop environments leads to applications being developed using a wide variety of GUI toolkits. Yes, this also happens in Windows, and to a lesser degree in Mac OS X with designers not adhering to interface design guidelines, but it is still a fairly big problem in X.
Let me state that two of the desktop environments for X, Gnome and KDE, have created pretty cohesive desktops. The problem being, even if you use one or the other, I doubt that all of the applications you choose to use are from one design camp or the other, leading to a mish mash of GUI design on your desktop, and a somewhat bloated system for having to have two extensive sets of libraries to support both types of applications installed.
I know that someone will probably comment that they feel that very freedom of choice provided by X is one of it’s strengths.
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