From kde-core-devel Mon Mar 10 22:34:55 2003 From: Maksim Orlovich Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:34:55 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: glib in kdesupport: yes or no? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104733577104021 > Nothing I've proposed would keep anyone from choosing to use a set of > apps that are based on a single platform. Interoperability isn't > mutually exclusive with that, at all. What I meant is that there is an upper bound for how useful all this stuff you're suggesting is. It'll never be the real thing. > If we have several MIME systems that are all doing pretty much the > same thing, and unify those, it doesn't hurt anyone that's using only > one of them. Actually, it does. The moment, say a Konqueror contributor is spending his time (which he is of course free to do in whichever manner he pleases) ensuring that a Galeon user has to invest a bit less effort configuring the app to use his settings, instead of improving Konqueror/fixing Konqueror bugs the people who use Konqueror all loose. Nothing is without a price. And, I don't know about you, but I'd never put users of someone else's app above those of mine. I feel I have an obligation toward people who use my software to keep it doing what it should. And putting someone else above those users seems to me like a betrayal of faith. I keep my loyalty. P.S. apologies for not using gender-neutral terms, but it just gets hard to read.