Dirk Hondel on GNOME

October 11, 2006 4:15 pm Dave Neary gnome, humour

On the occasion of the release of Portland v. 1.0, VNUNet digs up a classic quote:

“The KDE guys desperately wanted to look and feel like Windows, and the other guys desperately wanted to make it as hard to use as possible,” said Dirk Hondel at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in August.

2 Responses

  1. Marnanel Says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    Good grief– does Rupert know about that quote yet?

  2. Alan Says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 5:50 am

    > Hondel is the former chief technology officer at SuSE

    Not exactly surprising he isn’t a fan of Gnome then but his description of KDE is hardly flattering either.