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Interoperability is the key!.

The problem only obstacle is 'religion' with a pinch of ego. You know the 'my religion is better than yours' kind of thing or 'if we use their technology then it means we acknowledge its worth which is true but we really don't want to say that'.

Those complaining about the effort should answer this:

How would you feel if every app has its own unique clipboard and file selector, and the coder decided to set the app font to his favorite font 'Courier'? Before answering this, remember he has the right to do it and according to some posters, since MacOSX and WinXP are different why shouldn't apps be allowed to look and behave differently also.

If you are honest with yourself, then you would answer that, because they have to follow guidelines? But why do they have to follow guidelines? According to some posters, why should all apps be forced to the same common denominator, when the coder may want to do his own things?

The answer is obviously so the the apps interoperate with each other. If interoperability is permitted within one DE, why should it not be permitted accross DEs then?

The answer then boils down to 'religion' and egos. You start hearing things like:


I don't think it's fair to expect the KDE community to link to the core libraries of the Gnome project while saying that the Gnome project is not willing to link to the core libraries of the KDE project. I know, I know, "tainted by the GPL" or whatever, but that just doesn't seem like the way that things are supposed to work.


How are things supposed to work then Scott? Do you look at the value of the library and the benefits, or at the fact that it is a GNOME library? This is pure religion and will not take us anywhere. Statements like these just feed the trolls.

Please GNOME and KDE developers, stop this bullshit and start thinking out of the Box.