On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > I apologize for asking a question that probably borders on religious, but > would love to get some kind of feedback on the following. Hope it doesn't > come across as bogus. For me, as a developer, the religious war I see is not merely just GNOME vs KDE, but a little deeper unfortunately... C vs C++. Gnome is written in C, and inherits all its good and bad points. There has been talk of a move to C++ but I'll believe it when I see it. KDE is written in C++. So even leaving aside the Gnome VS KDE user environment debate, there is the great language war as well. As far as the "winning" desktop argument, I sincerely hope there will NEVER be a "default" Linux desktop. That is the PRECISE reason we (our company) are leaving a MS Windoze environment! The applications that I am writing are window manager independent and damn well should be. Gnome will never "kill" KDE and KDE will never "replace" Gnome, and there will always be a place for Xfce, fvwm, enlightenment, and those of use who ONLY use X in order to open seventeen term windows at one :) My recommendation would be find your favorite window manager first THEN develop for it. There is nothing worse that coding for an environment you don't enjoy using simply because it is supposed to be the "right" environment. m -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com ____________________________ A host is a host from coast to coast, and no one will talk to a host too close Unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung or dead
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