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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Because that will take YEARS and the Linux distros don't have the time for these kind of silly races. They need to do work and they need to satisfy their customers. And TODAY, their customers want both Qt and GTK+ apps. They don't have the luxury to wait.
Exactly that's why this cooperation sucks this will throw both desktop significant back for YEARS if they need to merge stuff or work on unified standards. They are too different from programming, from framework, from code and from implementation. KIOslaves are not GNOME-VFS, DCOP is not CORBA and so on. Please see it from a programmers perspective for a moment, this kind of cooperating is simply not possible anymore.
This is NOT what I want. NEITHER Red Hat wants that. Read Havoc's article again please the one he speaks about Choice and Fragmentation. He outlines it fine there.
And here is the problem Havoc speaks for himself not for the whole community and not for KDE itself. While his idea has some points the core problems are differently. The way Havoc likes to see things means that KDE or GNOME has to change sigificant code. Say they both agree that gnome-vfs and kioslaves have to go, they now create knome-vfslaves, the code may be new a core component shared by both, now can you imagine how much work this requires for both to change ? GNOME is in a nowhere position because they don't offer something productive at all to say their Desktop suxx while the one from KDE is really usable and productive. Now the question:
a) why should KDE agree with GNOME to do something new
b) can you imagine what work is required to change all this just because Havoc thinks it's right ?
c) What purpose or what reason is there for KDE to unify with GNOME while GNOME has to offer nothing. It's their project, their shit and their code not the ones from KDE.