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Hi,

if someone missed the point about the current events of the last weeks: Our=
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job is now to correct any impression KDE is making to the outside world tha=
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if someone would want to use KDE, he would be tied to one toolkit and one=20
development environment.=20

We have to make clear that we do have the power and the force, together wit=
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our technologies, to be an *integrative* factor, not one that needs to crea=
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its own application set just because we beleive that it's the right solutio=
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in the long run. Here, we have to think short term while we can still=20
preserve projects like KOffice to be developed _over time_ to become a spee=
dy=20
and functional replacement of OpenOffice. Until then things like KOffice ar=
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_research_ projects, alternatives to test our technologies like Kparts.=20

The keyword is: create mindshare by code that KDE can integrate:

=2D OpenOffice.org
=2D Mozilla
=2D GTK/ other toolkits based applications

into KDE as seamless as possible. We cannot deny reality the right to dicta=
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us that sometimes we have to do things that we do not always like to do. To=
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cite Michael Gorbatchev: He who comes late gets punished by life. It should=
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be our way to realize that people tend to think of us as the=20
everything-has-to-be-KDE-or-we-won't-use-it crowd and that we have to do a=
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good job right now to make sure this impression gets corrected and we are t=
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driving factor with regard to uniting both our goal to provide a HIG based,=
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easy to use desktop with a bunch of useful apps that is _at the same time_=
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*the* desktop that is able to run and integrate any application out there.

One way to do that is to make those apps use our filedialog and printdialog=
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(printing does work in most cases, filedialog is a research project people=
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should look at and maybe make proposals how to change gtk to call the kde=20
file dialog, patches welcome for demo.

Alex Neundorf is working on the OOo/gtk side, so please contact him if you=
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want to be of help, he really needs hands helping him with this particular=
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project.

The other way is to check out the cool things that are happening at=20
freedesktop.org which is in particular the organization that will support u=
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with any integrative work, may it be themes, styles, settings and new=20
features in X.=20

Ralf
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We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs.
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Ralf Nolden
nolden@kde.org

The K Desktop Environment       The KDevelop Project
http://www.kde.org              http://www.kdevelop.org

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