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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE, Gnome, Koffice, Goffice and more
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-03-02 14:43:06
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Charles wrote:
> 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.

Yes. I like the idea. However, be aware that to define these things you 
often need to have some hands-on experience with the issue at hand: You 
can't write a good spec for window manager hints if you have never 
written a window manager before.

Cheers,
Waldo

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