Bruce Byfield never ceases to amaze me at the kind of people he finds for his interviews. Check out the lolz quotes from this one:
Pearson attributes this balance to the fact that “KDE 3.5 was built to emulate Windows XP, and therefore inherited that balanced interface.”
As if emulating the appearance of another OS inherits it’s characteristics. This is excellent logic; it is quite infallible! KDE is a Windows XP Emulator after all. This is the person maintaining the KDE3 base.
By contrast, Pearson characterizes the KDE 4 series as “closer to Mac OS X. It does not recede into the background willingly, and has lost much of the configurable that KDE 3.5 had.
LOL
In response to the suggestion that Trinity is “static” — that is, has more or less reached the point where it cannot be greatly enhanced without a major rewriting of the code — Pearson’s reply is, “It’s supposed to be that way! Xfce is static by the same criteria, yet a large number of people use it and actually prefer it to KDE4/Gnome.”
LOL
In fact, Pearson argues, many users prefer a desktop that does not change.
Many more users prefer a desktop which gains new features.
