From kde-kimageshop Thu Jun 30 10:44:31 2011 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:44:31 +0000 To: kde-kimageshop Subject: Re: Poll about users' most preferred desktop (was "GNOME and KDE Message-Id: <201106301244.31812.boud () valdyas ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=130943071707591 On Wednesday 29 June 2011 Jun, silvio grosso wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In the future, on the Krita's web-page, it might be interesting to have a poll about the most preferred Linux Graphical Deskop for running Krita. > Naturally, with NO intention to start a flame among users :-) > > I am thinking about something like that: > - What Linux distribution do you use for running Krita? > - Which Graphical Desktop have you picked (Gnome, Kde, Unity, Xfce etc)? It could be a really interesting survey indeed. I'm not sure we've got software for that on the website, but I think I saw some "poll module" -- bugsbane will now, of course. My gut feeling is that many users indeed use Krita on Gnome. > Maybe many users prefer to use Gnome instead of Kde because they come from Windows. > On Windows, very likely, they have tried at least Gimp. > When they try Linux for the first time often these new users start with Ubuntu (or something "similar" e.g. Mint). > Since Ubuntu, in the past, was based primarily on Gnome this might explain their "choice". > As of now, with Unity on Ubuntu Natty everything has changed... > > BTW, It looks like most of the principal graphical applications for handling pictures have been written using Gtk. > For instance: Gimp, Hugin, RawTherapee, CinePaint and so forth. > Hence the outcome for both artists and users to "enjoy" more the Gnome desktop. > > Perhaps, *but* this is a wild guess, it might be they feel more at home on Gnome :-) I think it's mostly historical reasons... Cinepaint is of course a Gimp fork, and Gimp is where GTK came from. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ kimageshop mailing list kimageshop@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop