On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:48 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > > at one point we must realize the fact that GNOME and KDE are built on > > two very different platforms; sharing specifications is possible - even > > welcomed, but sharing API is only possible at a very low level. > > Thank you! Hearing someone actually say this is like a breath of fresh air. > > I'd question whether or not we even *want* to harmonise these sorts of > things between desktop environments. Part of their strength lies in > their foundation libraries and infrastructure. > I don't think this is true. Part of their strength relies on features for users, not on low-level APIs, so unless we really get over this way of thinking, I doubt we'll be able to beat other non-free desktops :-)
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