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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>why is there so much emphasis on apps all looking the same
It is not just about that. "looking" the same, is just one of the 20-30 more things they have to be done in addition.
As for the audio apps, traditionally these apps have "cool" non-standard interface. It is mostly a tradition kind of thing, while other times they just emulate devices, so they try to make their GUI look like these devices. However, a desktop environment does not bent on that rule.