Gnome. KDE. The two monoliths of the Linux desktop environment market.

It’s pretty common knowledge that I am a KDE person, as emphasized in my recent article about how to use your computer: part 2. I’m not saying Gnome is bad – in fact, I’m writing this post on Epiphany on Gnome right now, and Gnome actually looks … decent – I’m just saying KDE looks like it’s found the future and it’s writing it now. What’s up, then? Well, I just wanted to express my “Oooooh” at the development work I peek into every now and then in the PlanetKDE RSS feeds. Since I don’t run KDE-SVN myself, I’m probably not in the write position to right some biased evaluations. (That means I shouldn’t write stuff I don’t know much about).

Anyways, here’s a little preview on what’s epic: System Notifications! Beautiful, intelligent, and non-space consuming:

Now that I’ve gotten your attention (well, yes, that picture is true), click here to read more about awesome SVN development. It’s full of pretty pictures that makes you say “Now that’s what a good desktop looks like!”

Oh, and to keep this post picture happy, here’s a latest screenie of my desktop. That baby leopard has got to be one of the cutest animals I’ve seen in a while. (Click for higher resolution image).