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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Ok, so everyone look ... here is someone who wishes to see the two projects merge for all intensive purposes. Ok, Mike I understand and respect your opinion. I also disagree
IMO, KDE and GNOME are capable of producing whole complete desktops with significant differences while living side by side. Not everyone wishes to eliminate choice. Some people value choice.
It is also true that third party developers hate the current situation with the different distros. They would like to see RedHat join UnitedLinux and decrease fragmentation. I'm sure some would rather that the other distros just go away and only RedHat remain. Still others (like me) wish that RedHat and other distros would agree where appropriate/reasonable and disagree when sound technical/practical reasons exist and where the differences lead to better software and enable us to see the large and appealing range of choices. RedHat is all about nullifying the desktop... while some third party developers would likely wish to nullify RedHat.
[The point is that pretending KDE and GNOME are separate is dumb.]
No, claiming that they are the same is dumb. They are not and they shouldn't be. Many prefer KDE and many prefer GNOME. Merge the two and many will suffer.
[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.]
To be honest, you're coming off as arrogant and sounding egotistical, and worse, it sounds like you think KDE and GNOME are the same. They are not. The debates seen on the lists are an ill wind being whipped up by some arrogant people, some missguided people and some commercial people. Move along.