From kde-devel Tue Feb 29 00:01:50 2000 From: Charles Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:01:50 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE, Gnome, Koffice, Goffice and more X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=95178295909128 I just hit a suddent shock of thought: Forming an independent (not controlled by any certain desktop environment, like KDE, Gnome, E) commitee just for standarization of X11 based applications, desktops etc. That including file formats for [[:alpha:]]*office, window manager hints, formats like .desktop, configuration formats and all that good stuff. I believe it'd be much more productive than occasional emails to the Gnome lists, since it'd be something everyone could agree on, and there wouldn't be that ego issue with the "Our desktop is better than yours." Congress of Desktops? Maybe. I think it has a chance. -Charles On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, dep wrote: > a year ago i did a survey of word processors for X, concentrating on > the open-source stuff, and what i found was about a dozen of them, > usually half-finished and each with some proprietary file format that, > while often allowing export through rtf or somesuch, was incapable of > even dreaming of handing off a complex document to someone else. this > included, too, the word processors that were part of some real or > imagined suite. [snip] -- A shaft (an SI unit) is a measure of suckiness. A single shaft is how much a certain company in Redmond, Washington sucks. A shaft is an extremely large unit, hence, microshafts are much more useful.