 Permalink for comment 394059 RE: Stop ranting about KDE 4.0 by
WereCatf on Wed 11th Nov 2009 19:17 UTC in reply to "Stop
ranting about KDE 4.0" Member since:  3.) GNOME 3.0 and KDE 4.0
have almost nothing in common. GNOME 3.0 won't even use a new
toolkit. Even GTK 3.0 (likely to be introduced after GNOME 3.0,
btw) isn't really a new generation toolkit. Instead it just
deprecates old stuff, hence breaking binary (and source)
compatibility and hence needs a new major version number.  I
don't really like KDE4, but one thing that immediately struck me
when I tried it was that it featured lots of animation and they
were all _very_ smooth and fluid, compared to GTK+ apps which
barely ever have any kind of animation and even then they are
jerky and really basic ones.  I am not certain if it's a
limitation of GTK+ itself, but I do suspect it is. Why else
would there be so little visible animations in GTK+ apps when QT
apps feature such all the time? Anyways, if I am correct then I
really wish they'd put more effort