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Subject:    RE: Food for thought: Why (and how) should KDE and Gnome unite?
From:       Kevin Forge <forgeltd () usa ! net>
Date:       1999-01-07 11:41:25
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> -HTML and XML libs: why can't GNOME and KDE use Netscape's Gecko
> layout engine and be done with writing their own html and xml libraries?

As far as I know Gecko became a reasonable choice only a couple weeks
ago.
Before it was too big and slow.  Even now it's too buggy for a
production
release.  However KDE and Gnome don't need to use the same browser
engine.
All the internal HTML stuff ( I.e. Help ) should be in the most basic
subset
of HTML they can find.  This is as far as I know how it is in KDE so the
docs can be read in Mozilla, KFM, Lynx and the Gnome browser too.
 
> -Documentation formats: GNOME chose the better format here. Docbook
> supports inline graphics, linuxdoc doesn't from what I read of it in
> the SGML-tools docs.

SGML ?  Sounds like an HTML subset to me :)

 
> -CORBA ORBs - a while back on the list, a few people complained that
> the KDE ORB, mico, was bloated.  Perhaps GNOME and KDE should put their
> heads together and code an ORB for both of the projects.

This is more tricky.  In an ideal world any corba app should communicate 
with any other.  In this world however both projects did a little
"embrace
and extend" with that concept :(
 
> Oh, I just thought of one more area where standardization is very important:
> 
> I really hope both GNOME and KDE use the same document formats for their
> office suites. We could really avoid a lot of problems this way.  Even
> better would be to use an XML based format so that all one would need 
> to read any gnome or kde office doc would be an XML parser and the DTD.

MS has been bullied into using XML for it's doc format in Office 2000.
If it works according to the standard ( I.e. same as Mozilla ) Then it's
cool.  I doubt that though so look out for a project to convert MsXML to 
XML for use by KDE/Gnome/Everybody else :)
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