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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I point out the fact that he's misread/misunderstood the article and I'm treating him like shit? Grow up.
And how the hell is it physically possible to force one's own opinioins on others? Did Eugenia somehow magically make you believe what she was saying? If so, you're an idiot and shouldn't be allowed to operate motorized vehicles or handle money.
You want me to back up what I say more fully? Ok, Big Boy:
In her editorial, Eugenia mentions "interoperability" no fewer than four times. She mentions that companies can and should "support both" (or words very much to that effect) no fewer than seven times. Not one time does she espouse "merging," "unifying," or anything to that effect. In fact, the following quote should clear things up:
And make no mistake: "the common standards that were defined up to now didn't make KDE nor Gnome lose their individuality". Choice is good and choice will remain. Nobody is saying to make Gnome and KDE the same project! What is needed are just some common standards that will make the life easier for the user and the application developer. Each project will retain its individuality, but instead of having, for example, a Gnome item working via the notification area in the gnome taskbar just fine and
then you run the same app under KDE and you get the notification little app as a real window and not on KDE's notification area, that is very bothersome for the user.
Did you get that? "Choice is good and choice will remain"? "just some common standards"? "Each project will retain its individuality"?
I didn't bother going over the thread summary, because I have a life. But everything I said in my earlier post about what the devs said is true, too. Read it.
That backup enough for you, Sport?