Attached Linus's opinion of Gnome

[Myles Green]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:31:06 +0000
"Lorenzo E. Danielsson" <lordan at backa97.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:15 -0800, George Farris wrote:
> > There are many of us who use and love both
> > desktops, and it is sad to see these kinds of posts.  
> > 
> > I would much rather see a place where both GTK+, QT, FLtk etc apps
> > can exist peacefully on any given desktop.
> 
> Thank you for pointing this out. I think the ones of us who use and
> love both desktops always end up getting caught in the middle of all
> these flamewars. I personally feel that both are two excellent desktop
> environments and I'm grateful to all the brilliant developers on both
> teams. 
> 
> Just to steer this thread away from where it started I think it would
> be really nice to get good integration between the various desktops.
> It would be so cool if Evolution and Kontact could synchronize their
> information. I prefer to use Gnome applications when I'm in Gnome and
> KDE applications when I'm in KDE. As such, I think it would be nice if
> KDE applications were hidden (by default) in Gnome, and the other way
> around.
> 
> I know much (all?) of this is beyond the scope of Ubuntu, but is there
> anything we could do? Maybe we could put up ideas for how to achieve
> better integration between the desktops, and see how one could work
> towards it, and what things can be achieved by us. Or would all this
> just be wasted effort?
> 
That's why freedesktop.org exists.

From the website:
"freedesktop.org is open source / open discussion software projects
working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System
desktops. The most famous X desktops are [WWW]GNOME and [WWW]KDE, but
developers working on any Linux/UNIX GUI technology are welcome to
participate."

Regards, Myles

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