Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
A KDE developer tipped me off to a recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.
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You have lost a lot of credibility in my eyes for disparaging those of us who do not work for commercial companies. Just because we do not wish to see the gradual erosion of our work into some lowest common denominator does not mean we only have 'political motivations'.
For all of you who are clamoring for so much interoperability ... you are missing the point. GNOME, KDE, MacOSX, Java/Swing, Motif, Windows are all different platforms with different reasons and motivations. The Free platforms *should* strive to interoperate where appropriate and where there are trivial differences. Shared specs as long as the design fundamentals of both groups are respected should be developed.
That does not mean that they should be merged or 'nullified'. People who advocate this are secretly wish that Linux only had one desktop and bemoan the fact that several different applications with surface similarities exist such as KOffice/OpenOffice and Konqui/Mozilla. This wealth of applications and choices are a good thing and the same can be said of desktop/software platforms. While I am a KDE fan and only really use KDE apps, I recognize and respect that others prefer GNOME and it necessarily follows that GNOME is a good thing because it satisfies some segment that KDE does not! Choice is good!
Don't be fooled by all of these who call for the gradual merging of everything. They are either corporations or employees of corporations that are to scared to make a choice OR they wish to control/have a hand in, all of these projects and hence don't have enough time, money to get there hands in on everything ... so they try and 'nullify' it all.
KDE has strengths and I don't want to see them go away just so that it can agree with GNOME on a lowest common denominator.
GNOME has strengths and I don't want to see them go away just so that it can agree with KDE on a lowest common denominator.
All of those who are of like mind ... both KDE developers and GNOME developers have good reasons and you shouldn't try and play them down just because you like RedHat and what they are doing. It is an insult to the community.