I don't know the exact details, but perhaps this quite new initiative is what you dream of: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Project">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Project</a> <div> On 11/12/06, Jelle de Jong <<a href="mailto:jelledejong@powercraft.nl">jelledejong@powercraft.nl</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> My vision is to create a widget system that is universal for all GUI systems. So a gnome application could be ported to trolltec or GTK etcetera. Vincent wrote: > I totally agree. Can you imagine the benefit for the Linux world as a > whole if Ubuntu would do this? Of course, let's hope the the > Gnome/Ubuntu people do not unnecessarily use Gnome libs, or, when it > adds some non-required functionality, that there are also non-gnome-lib > versions. That'd really be great. > > On 11/11/06, *Cody Somerville* <<a href="mailto:cody.somerville@gmail.com">cody.somerville@gmail.com</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:cody.somerville@gmail.com"> cody.somerville@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > >     For those of you not on the primary devel mailing list, I thought >     you might like to read the following: > >     ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >     From: *Elias Humbolt * <<a href="mailto:elias@asb-online.at">elias@asb-online.at</a> >     <mailto:<a href="mailto:elias@asb-online.at">elias@asb-online.at</a>>> >     Date: Nov 11, 2006 1:56 PM >     Subject: Efficient Coding Strategy for Desktop Environment Development >     To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > >     How more Code could be shared between "competing" Desktops Environments >     ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >     I understand Ubuntu as a project where people of different interests >     and >     origin build their dreams together on common ground. We have come far >     but it is still far to go until we can really say, we live/develop >     following the concept mentioned above. > >     At the current time I still see talent, time and energy wasted by >     Ubuntu >     family members of different religion each one trying to reinvent it's >     own wheel. Instead they should create one stable felly together and >     apply their unique touch to it by adding their custom hub cap. > >     A good example for illustration is network-manager. The deamon running >     in the background represents the felly, the common ground. And the Gnome >     and KDE GUIs represent the individual hub caps. > >     This approach ensures there are not two incompatible implementations for >     the same problem in Ubuntu like powernowd and kpowersaved. And work is >     not lost, like all the KDE attempts to create a config utility for wlan >     devices. Or even like with dcop which will be replaced by dbus in KDE4. > >     Possibly dcop could be what dbus is nowadays, if only this technology >     would not have been hidden inside kdelibs, unaccessible for anybody >     interested, only to be available when installing kdelibs and even the QT >     library which it depends on. > >     For that reason huge coding efforts are lost for ever, programming >     hours >     wasted, because of course it does not make sense for KDE to maintain >     dcop if dbus is around anyway and fulfils the same purpose. > >     Consequently, we should ensure in the future, that this does not happen >     again. Common grounds must be found, universal tools created, efforts >     shared. > >     The next best candidates would be: >     Power Management and Laptop Buttons > >     Both could be handled by a daemon and controled by an individual GUI in >     each desktop environment. Other candidates could certainly be >     identified. > >     Great things could be acieved if Ubuntu when all it's flavours act like >     a big family. The efforts of the one family member should also be >     beneficial for the other members as well. > >     Wasn't this the idea of Open Source anyway? > >     <a href="https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/efficient-coding-strategy">https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/efficient-coding-strategy </a> >     <<a href="https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/efficient-coding-strategy">https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/efficient-coding-strategy</a>> >     <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EfficientCodingStrategySpec"> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EfficientCodingStrategySpec</a> > >     Elias > > >     -- >     ubuntu-devel mailing list >     <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> >     <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel </a> > > >     -- > > >     Firefox ( <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com">www.getfirefox.com</a> <<a href="http://www.getfirefox.com">http://www.getfirefox.com</a>>) -- A >     browser you can trust >     -- >     xubuntu-devel mailing list >     <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com </a>> >     <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> > > > > > > -- > Vincent > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel </a> </blockquote></div> -- Vincent