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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mike, why are you focusing on who Adam is and who Galaxy? Why don't you deal with arguments, instead of "personal" - your comment brought ZERO to the discussion. Focus on what the person has to say, not who they are.
Adam, while I agree with you in many ways, please try to be more civil toward Eugenia. I don't always agree with her (in fact here I DON'T), but she is not the "enemy". So don't say: "lies", "shit" etc. Disagreement - I can disagree with friends, it is only fanatics who see disagreement as enmity.
Re: RHAT. This whole "unity" thing has a stench of RHAT about it. I have nothing against RHAT, but I don't like when they try to destroy KDE just because they were slow in getting into the desktop market. Seems to me, KDE and GNOME have been at it for awhile. RHAT was asleep at the switch when it came to the desktop (or simply had different priorities, or couldn't do server and dk simultaneously) - and now, they woke up, and glommed on to GNOME because of the Trolltech issue. Sadly, GNOME was a bit behind. So, now what they'd like to do, is slow down KDE and "absorb" them into some kind of frankenstein with GNOME just so they can go to their corporate clients and say: here, this is THE linux desktop... they can't really do it, with a crippled KDE, and with KDE racing ahead at great speed - KDE is making their GNOMish desktop look silly and behind the times. So, they'd like to slow down KDE... which is NOT IN THE INTEREST OF LINUX AT LARGE, it is only in the interest of RHAT. I say, screw them. If they want to dominate the linux market, let them do it honestly - make GNOME the greatest and the bestest, not by crippling KDE. Bottom line, KDE has nothing to gain from this, and the linux community can afford to support both GNOME and KDE - this "unity" thing seems mostly in the narrow interest of RHAT.
Nobody owns KDE - and if *some* developers try to push this "unity" thing, well, others will just take KDE and fork it. So there. I don't think that would be in the interest of THE ONE AND ONLY. Let linux alone - it is doing quite all right with both KDE and GNOME separate.