Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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Hi
Apparently you arent aware of the interoperability improvements
Let me list them for you
Fontconfig is used by all gtk2 and qt3 apps.
pkgconfig is used by both gnome and kde apps
Apps can dock on the panel regardless of the toolkit like gaim in kde and kopete in gnome.This is called system tray specification.
Book mark specification - XBEL
Desktop file formats - .desktop and .icon files
DBUS is already used by some gnome apps and it is very close to the similar kde technology which is about to be adopted by kde in its next release
Cairo
Shared mime support will be adopted with the release of gnome 2.6
Check here for a complete list of stuff
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/Home
While there is still a good amount of work to do this isnt vaporware or hype. If you are in either the kde or gnome lists you can find developers actively participating in the freedesktop.org effort
Rahul Sundaram