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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: GNOME Desktop Project
From:       Martin Jones <mjones () powerup ! com ! au>
Date:       1997-08-19 9:48:40
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weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > about what a window manager is and start recognizing that in order
> > > to have a truly powerful desktop you can't simply allow for switching
> > > to any old window manager. You will lose important functionally that
> >
> > Why is that. At the most with a different WM you lose some subtle features,
> > X11 allows a large number of hints (including the motif ones) that most people
> > honour.
> >
> > Ok tomorrow I'll look at porting the KConfig stuff cleanly into C and with
> > a well documented C api too. Gnome/KDE/openwarfare whatever that'll be helpful
> > in letting people make non KDE apps aware of kde preferences and able to use
> > the same scheme for them.
> >
> > I do however think that cloning qt is the easier approach Miguel
> 
> Well, Miguel, listen to Alan :-) he is an experienced programmer.
> 
> I would volunteer to help you porting. I cant do any more for you
> than offer you my help.
> 
> With this approach KDE development could go on in the usual
> speed ( it will anyway ) and once the free toolkit catched up
> we write a C++ layer around your c code, and - voila - we are done.
> KDE is completely free.
> 
> That is faster then everything else.
> 

I would also volunteer to work on a Free Qt rather than see two
competing systems.  I'm sure there are more who feel this way.
This really is a more sensible way to achieve a completely free
desktop than starting from scratch.  A Qt-like C++ wrapper for gtk
may be exactly what we need.

-- 
bye,
Martin Jones
mjones@kde.org

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