Knome: An April 1 joke or an interesting idea in progress?

Today, 1 from April of the year 2020, in many communities and groups of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux, have been surprised by the appearance of a website promoted under the name of «know«. Yes, «know«. As if it were a fusion of 2 of the greatest projects of Desktop Environments for GNU / Linux.

But What is joking or serious, with this idea that suddenly is not so bad or crazy? Certainly, the first of April is considered in many regions of the planet, as April Fools Day or April Fools Day, or by its name in English, April Fools' Day. Is it then, a joke of this typical day or a preliminary rehearsal to census the technical and emotional response of the interested Communities?

Knome is an April XNUMXst joke?

At first glance, one might think when visiting the project website «Knome» that for having a formal domain (.org) and a moderately decent visual appearance, the idea could be something unusual, something with sustenance and support. But, when trying to explore it, or download the project for testing on our computers, anyone begins to realize that there is something of a joke in it. his funny "Download" button dodges the mouse pointer and its news section, takes us to a page with a peculiar error message "404"

"Object not located!

The requested URL could not be located on this server. The URL of the page that has referred you appears to be wrong or out of date. Please report the error to the author of that page.

If you believe this is a server error, please report it to the portal administrator.

Error 404

knome.org
Apache / 2.4.41 (Unix) OpenSSL / 1.1.1d mod_wsgi / 4.6.8 Python / 3.8"

Although, on the other hand, official Twitter account of the KDE Community, in English, KDE Community (@kdecommunity) throw a Communication with a little more seriousness, that one does not know if it is to reinforce the joke of April day, or to census the technical and emotional response of the interested Communities.

"@gnome and @kdecommunity deepen their commitment to working together and unveil KNOME, a new desktop that offers users the best of both worlds: https://knome.org". View online about Twitter.

While the official account, in English of the GNOME project (@gnome) about Twitter tells us:

"In partnership with our friends at @kdecommunity we are delighted to embark on this new endeavor. GNOME configurability combined with KDE simplicity, all in one package. Introducing KNOME, built using QTK3 and Kutter". View online about Twitter.

So, for now, we have nothing left but wait a bit to see what there is of true and false between everything published.

What's good about the idea behind Knome?

Based on the project idea Make a Linux App, which is an initiative that according to its website invites developers and advanced users to contribute your grain of sand to the GNU / Linux ecosystem on the right path, which is expressed in not increasing the number of GNU / Linux distributions, but in increasing the number of applications available. I personally believed that this could be interpreted as well, as a invitation to convergence.

"Linux desktop and mobile users have a healthy appetite for new software. Linux app stores and repositories lack apps compared to their proprietary counterparts. Enthusiasts of the art are encouraged to direct their passion and creativity toward creating new applications for Linux users. Too often they fall into the trap of creating more Linux distributions. We don't need any more Linux distributions. Stop making Linux distributions, make applications instead". Make a Linux App

Yes one convergence understood as the process by which merging as many GNU / Linux elements, modules or similar applications as possible to decrease that huge fragmentation, which is expressed in a huge range of excellent GNU / Linux Distros, Desktop Environments, Window Managers, Boot Managers, Package Managers, File Explorers, Internet Explorers, and so on for many other software or systems.

Therefore, any project that is aimed at merging the best of the many similar excellent alternatives, he thought it would be the correct road, for now, to try to advance the goal that GNU / Linux conquer the Desktop of most home and office computers.

Conclusion

We hope this "useful little post" about «Knome», which is surely a «broma del día de las bromas de abril o día de los inocentes​ de abril»; but nevertheless, it does not seem to be such a joke if we take it as a first project invitation that brings together 2 greats, such as «KDE y GNOME» in the field of Desktop environments, or others different in different areas; be a lot interest and utility, For the whole «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».

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