Is GNOME just marketing? (KDE is for real.) (Score 1)

The latest events wrt. GNOME give me bad vibes: there's so much noise and hoopla about GNOME and version 1.0 that it scares me - where's the quality? Is this all vaporware?

* Why is GNOME now "1.0"? Is this just marketing? GNOME's implemented functionality is nothing like KDE 1.0. Is this just a Microsoft-like attempt to grab market/mind-share before something's really there? The GNOME project should be honest, and name it 1.0 when it's really acheived the base line that it stands for. Like KDE did.

* One of the biggest "plusses" about GNOME is supposedly the bindings to many languages. It was written up in Linux Journal. People here mention it when saying why GNOME is better. But - is this more vaporware? On gnome.org I could find no information about this. No programming examples, etc. Very Microsoft-like, if you ask me. Meanwhile KDE is starting to get bindings to other languages, too. But it will be true to KDE'S style to only announce them when they're there.

Don't get me wrong - I intend to check GNOME out more in detail - I'm interested in the Palm Pilot package.

But we should be honest and let quality decide what succeeds - not marketing, hype and mindless arguing.

Muesli