[lug] KRUD comments wanted

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 05:02, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> On the other hand, I'm not fond of the way RedHat butchers KDE (wasn't there a 
> recent survey that found that KDE is more popular/widely used than GNOME 
> among Linux users?). 

Maybe.  Outside the U.S.  But you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who
can do C++/Qt/KDE development in the U.S.  Ask TI and AMD.  They've both
had positions like this open for months now (TI just filled their
spot).  I keep getting called by recruiters for them, but both places
said my lack of C++ was a problem (just cuz I don't know the STL
du-jour).  Besides, I'm a GTK+ guy.  C++ is ugly - they should do Java
if they want true object oriented stuff.  GTK+ is object oriented.  It's
just not a language.  It's an OO API.  Who needs a compiler to do all my
dirty work?  Anyway, KDE is nice but I don't see how its significantly
better than GNOME.  Both provide the basics.  Maybe KDE is more windows
like.  Ick.  Qt actually has a DB interface built into it.  That's kind
of nice (don't think GTK+ 2.x has that yet).  Other than that, I'd call
it a dead heat.

(Notes of frustration at still not finding full time work may be showing
here...)
-- 
Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>