Mastodawn

I've been thinking about how in their guidelines #GNOME aims for applications that do one thing, compared to #KDE that aims at applications that cover more use-cases but reduce complexity by layering features. What does this mean for #community? The GNOME approach would spread the community, whereas KDE would encourage collaboration within fewer applications. I would expect KDE applications to have a larger community and a lower chance of becoming abandoned. Does anyone have data in this area?

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[ade]6d ago

@nicorikken myself,Kevin Ottens and Paul Adams dus that kind of research about 16 years ago, I would have to look around for more recent data -- but there certainly is that kind of social data floating around

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Nico Rikken

@kdedude Great! Any clear conclusion? I was already thinking of researchers in the #CHAOSS community. There are quite some factors to compensate for, so I worry it will be hard to draw definitive conclusions.