Re: Maybe GNOME needs some Marketing?

[markus weimer t-online de (Markus Weimer)]

Simon Jefford wrote:

> I've just finished reading reviews of Suse 6.1 and Caldera 2.2 in PC Plus, an
> English computing magazine. I'm not sure what it's like elsewhere but in
> England there's now quite a few "mainstream" magazines devoting space to Linux,
> which is great!
>
> However it struck me reading these reviews that KDE was getting all the
> limelight. Even a review of Redhat 6.0 had pictures of KDE rather than GNOME.
> Now I'm not saying that we should be looking to "krush KDE" or anything like
> that. What I am saying is that maybe we should be "pushing" GNOME a bit more so
> that it gets the attention it deserves. We could also learn from what KDE is
> doing right (the Windows-like PPP setup program springs to mind, as well as the
> mailer) and incorporate those ideas into Gnome. Maybe sending the Gnome
> software round a few well chosen magazines would help?
>
>  --

I think KDE gets all the good press because it is better. Better in usability.
Gnome is technolicaly more advanced, but KDE is very usefull today. So I use KDE
but I´m waiting for a usefull Gnome because anything I saw from gnome was faster
and prettier than everything I ever used with KDE.

So do good devekopment and get good press. When Gnome is as usefull as KDE it will
get the attention, too.


Markus Weimer