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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] gnome analysis of lj awards
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-10-15 21:43:09
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On Lundi 15 Octobre 2001 23:32, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> David Faure <david@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> > On Lundi 15 Octobre 2001 21:24, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > > while Mandrake appears to be wavering (as a Mandrake/KDE user, I too
> > > think Mandrake is really lacking in the KDE front).
> > 
> > Wavering ? Lacking ? I don't understand what you mean, please elaborate.
> 
> Only the well-known and often-hashed fact that Mandrake utilities are
> predominantly (if not all) GTK/GNOME-based (often seemingly
> poorly-designed from a usability point of view, I might add),
Gtk, not gnome, and for the simple reason that when they started,
there was no other valid solution for scripting languages. We now have
qt/perl, qt/python etc., but this didn't exist at the time.

> and that Mandrake seems to be pushing the GNOME development platform 
> more than anything else.
I haven't seen Mandrake pushing any development platform in particular.
Using gtk doesn't mean pushing gtk - as you say, the result isn't too convincing ;)

Mandrake is desktop-independent, as in "we have them all, and we push
all of them on an equal basis". Which means the distributor doesn't make the
choice, it's the user who does. I think this is quite fair, as much as we
(pro-kde people) would like to see KDE everywhere and only KDE.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ , http://www.konqueror.org/
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