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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
Editorial 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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'Null'
by Adam on Thu 13th Mar 2003 19:32 UTC

[>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. ;) ]

"... I use XP or OSX (which I prefer for desktop operations)."

Ok, so XP or Aqua is your favorite desktop that *actually exists* (See: not in fairy tale Eugenia land). Excuse me for failing to read your mind and see the wonderful desktop you dream of at night ;P

[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.]

I am not and it is not. Differences ... that's my point! Yes, Aqua is different *and* so are GNOME and KDE. They have different technologies different goals different people different motivations/histories and different applications. You and RedHat wish to make them into the same thing for all intensive purposes. That is the point RedHat wishes to nullify the differences and that is the root motivation behind this push by Havoc.

[The editorial AND the thread summation that followed were basically about interoperability, not about "merging" and "nullifying," as you put it.]

No, the threads and arguments that Eugenia's article are referencing make quite clear that 'nullifying' is the goal. That is what RedHat has attempted. Some do not want to see any cooperation or shared specs between the desktops. I am not one of them. However, others are hoping to merge the two desktops. They view interoperability and integration to be king. I am not one of them either. RedHat and Eugenia are. They wish that all of the differences between KDE and GNOME that are visible to the end user to just go away.

@Unknown ... my contributions to KDE are piddly and I don't deserve any special consideration whatsoever. But as one who has contributed a tiny bit and one who wishes to contribute more to my favorite desktop ... thanks for the sentiment ;)