Novell will (continue to) support KDE after all

[Marcus Brubaker]

While Chris Browne pointed out some of the technical challenges of doing 
this in the obvious way I just wanted to point out that this is 
happening in ways that make sense.  That is, collaboration on low-level 
libraries and high-level specifications.  See freedesktop.org.  They are 
the source of many cool things that are happening in the foss desktop 
(e.g., dbus, hal, etc) and are intended to allow KDE and GNOME 
applications to interact and coexist happily.  It's relatively young but 
it has been and continues to be fruitful.

Marcus

ted leslie wrote:

>I love it if they tried to bring the two together.
>I have used KDE 99% of my linux life, only checking out GNOME for
>Mono (as its got native support).
>KDE has power, Gnome is the best bet to win over joe-user-public on
>using linux for the first time,
>but surely they could look at merging the two and making one able to pull from both
>in what they need for a custom desktop?
>and they are both supposed to be supporting opendesktop standards anyways ..
>i guess the down size it it makes for quite a large install to wrap the two together,
>but thats becoming almost a mute point with all the HD/RAM space for cheap these days.
>
>-tl
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>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:22:57 -0500
>Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>>After last week's meetings in Toronto on consecutive days with folks
>>from Ubuntu and Novell -- both of whom were talking as if GNOME for
>>their desktops were becoming the standard for everyone ...
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>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885694,00.asp
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