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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE - The joke's gone on for far too long.
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2001-02-13 11:47:37
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Paul Fredlein wrote:
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> >The larger picture also include an SDK and API that
> >isn't completely foreign to the Windows developer. Also, existing Windows
> >code for GOOD applications becomes impossible to port the further you get
> >away from established application models.
> 
> Have a look at the Windows API, MacOS API, and the BeOS API they're all
> different but all have the same basic structure. In fact, the Win API and
> MacOS API share functions with the same name but some argument differ or are
> passed in a different order. (The Mac does not need a HDC, the arguments in
> PtInRect are the same but in a different order.) All the windows be it Mac,
> Win, BeOS or KDE must have basically the same controls - scroll bars, max
> and min buttons etc.
> 
> But the Mac desktop is far superior to the Windows desktop.
> 
> All I'm saying is that KDE must be innovative to set itself apart from GNOME
> and the rest, this is not the case at the moment. The KDE Desktop, like the
> GNOME Desktop suck.

Thanks for the constructive comments.  Well hopefully someone as gifted as you
-- maybe you? -- can create a desktop that doesn't "suck", and then we'll all
be glad to use it.

Can we get back to constructive comments, please?

Ciao,

Andreas

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