I had mentioned previously on this list that it probably would be a good idea to see if the functionality of the avail WMs could be somehow unified. My reasoning for this came from glancing over what packages came with RH51. They included Gnome; I was using KDE. If developers started to write applications for Gnome, some GUI functions may not work with KDE and other environments. (I guess you could say it was an extension of a commentary that came out lately re binary compatibility of packages across all distributions.) I wrote one of the KDE contacts about this and I got a pretty caustic response: >Due to fundamental differences in design and philosophy between the >projects this is not to be expected in the future. Furthermore we like to >spend our energy on writing one working functional desktop environment, >rather than trying to be everything for everybody and then in the end lose >focus and produce nothing. Like I said before, if everyone focused on their own development, then other software development may splinter off too. >As to OLE, we have our own Compound document framework structure called >KOM. It is based on the industry standard Corba 2.0. Fine, all I said was it would be nice if people agreed on some kind of framework standard. Would this affect functionality? I don't think so but I can be wrong... >BTW, KDE is not a window manager. Of the almost 1 million lines of code >only 70.000 are dealing with window management. Why is this so hard to >understand? I had never seen it described as anything else. So how should I know it's "not a WM?" In any case, should there be an effort to not only create a binary standard (see LSB) but also a standard GUI document framework? I guess what I am saying is if Linux is to be accepted outside our group of enthusiasts, it ought to get a pretty face. Go ahead -- flame away!!! *duckandcover* Joe Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1998 New York Yankees (36-11) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
