
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.
>since Aqua is your favorite desktop
It is not!
My favorite desktop is something between XP and BeOS (with some OSX touches here and there). In other words, it doesn't exist.
>why aren't you pushing KDE and GNOME to integrate with MacOSX and pushing apple in the other?
I hope you are just being sarcastic here, because that comment is simply idiotic and non-logical. Aqua is not part of the Linux platform, neither is open, neither Apple wants it to be. It's theirs. But KDE and Gnome are open and everyone's. There is a difference.
>why don't they just clone QT, release it LGPL then join KDE?
Because it took Trolltech 10 years to bring Qt in the state there is today. Do you think that RH or anyone else has 10 years to spend and sit around and wait?