Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I believe Gnome compliance itself comes up rather
> frequently. I was trying to address the larger picture
> which is that Unix/Linux is moving away from the console
> and Motif, towards GTK/Gnome. Blackbox will remain
> viable, of course, but as a marginalized player. I don't
> see any race. It's that as it is Blackbox cannot take
> full advantage of Gnome. That integration is only going
> to get tighter, and with Sun, HP, and others pushing, I
> foresee a day relatively soon when apps comes out Gnome
> only. Of course we can all continue on console. The
> question is options. I thought that's what Linux was all
> about.
Jeff Raven had this to say about it back in May 2000
(www.mail-archive.com/blackbox%40trolltech.com/msg00302.html):
* Well, once upon a time blackbox had support for Gnome and
* KDE (well, the Gnome stuff was an outside patch), and it
* was a mess. Everybody doing things their own way. Lots
* of redundancy. Then, in the interests of peace, love and
* happier wm programers, it was decided that KDE, Gnome and
* other interested parties would work on a unified window
* manager specification.
*
* They're still working on it -- really slowly.
*
* In the mean time, until the spec is finalized, the old KDE
* stuff has been removed, and the Gnome patch has fallen by
* the wayside too. But once the new spec is done -- which
* better be soon, since both KDE and Gnome 2.0 are supposed
* to use it -- blackbox should support it.
*
* And that should give you Gnome support, at least when 2.0
* comes out later this year.
Now IANA BB Developer, so I don't know whether these
statements regarding the WM spec still apply. But this is
pretty much the reason GNOME compliance is not there now, as
I understand it.
--
Bill Beal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.bildo.net/
