On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:09PM +0200, Matthias Elter wrote:

> Distributors like Redhat, Mandrake or SuSE support more than one desktop 
> environment. This situation is not likely to change in the near future. They 
> will not adopt configuration tools that are integrated into KDE. Caldera can 
> provide native kcontrol modules because of their KDE only strategy. And a 
> standalone design wont help you much as it would still require most of 
> kdelibs in memory and a running dcopserver, kded and what not.

Maybe it's a good time to start supporting the open package thingy that's
been floating around for a while.  It's got support from all the BSD
committers, and I think some Leenuchs users as well.

FWIW, the pipe dream of a ports tree rewrite will be done in C++ with
ncurses and Qt front ends.  Or so sayeth JKH who's spent quite a bit of $$
so far on it.  Just something to chew on.

- alex