On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:54:51 -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote:
> 1. Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the
> Corel folks?
There is still a license problem with KDE (due to interaction between KDE's
license and Qt's) that prevents Debian from distributing KDE binaries.
There are some positive signs though.
Qt 2 will be released under a free license (the QPL 1.0). This license still
suffers from the conflict, but if the conflict is resolved, KDE qualifies
for "main" rather than "contrib".
There have been indications the KDE developers are now willing to change
KDE's licensing terms to eliminate the conflict.
Debian has always been about choice. Once the KDE licensing conflict is
resolved and Qt 2 is available, KDE can go in main and users will have the
choice between GNOME, KDE or both.
> Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME?
Corel seems to regard KDE as more mature.
> 4. I heard GNOME uses CORBA.
So do parts of KDE.
> What advantage does this give from a system perspective where multiple
> applications are running?
CORBA, when properly used, allows for tighter integration between
applications. E.g. a wordprocessor's document can incorporate a spreadsheet,
and have that spreadsheet be edittable via the spreadsheet application
directly.
HTH,
Ray
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