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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That's partly correct. Having two different desktop platforms is brain damage, and pisses off virtually all 3rd party developers who aren't tied to any one desktop.
3rd party developers, who just want to write software and for all Linux/FreeBSD users to be able to use it, hate the current situation. It's a mess. You either write things twice, or you write it once and it doesn't integrate as well as it should.
It's even worse if you want to share code. I want to write an object once, and have it usable by all developers, regardless of whether they use Qt, standard C++, C, Python, Ruby or their own personal dialect of lisp.
We can't do that currently, and it's annoying. A solution would be most welcome.
So when people talk about merging the VFS systems, yeah, rock on. That doesn't mean KDE has to use an implementation written in C, it can have its own in Qt/C++ if it likes. No problems by me, as long as we can write plugins for it in whatever environment we want.
The point is that pretending KDE and GNOME are separate is dumb. People don't want to target KDE or GNOME, they want to target Linux, or even free operating systems in general. Havoc has the right idea here.
To be honest, you're just coming off as sounding paranoid, and worse, it sounds like you think the current status quo is OK. It's not. It needs to change. These flamewars seen on the lists are the winds of change.