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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: Poll about users' most preferred desktop (was "GNOME and KDE
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2011-06-30 10:44:31
Message-ID: 201106301244.31812.boud () valdyas ! org
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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
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