glib in kdesupport: yes or no?

[Marc Mutz]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:46, Neil Stevens wrote:
<snip>
> I'm hinting at the things Havoc has listed.  The things Stefan wants
> us to do, glib in arts being the first step of.
<snip>

The Gnome-and-KDE-become-one stuff? Well, that's the personal opinion of 
STW. Since then, the discussion has rather more evolved into 
what-can-Gnome-and-KDE-share. And there's no need to run around 
panic-stricken and proclaiming the end of KDE, since

1. You and all the other Gnome-takes-over-KDE-cantyerseeit's won't be 
the ones burdening themselves with implementing the stuff anyway
2. The common standards that were defined up to now didn't make KDE nor 
Gnome lose their individuality
3. Even if they did, you could be sure that you could configure your KDE 
so that it keeps looking like KDE 3.0.
4. Users probably want it (common DnD protocol, common clipboard 
protocol, common WM protocol, why shouldn't there a common IPC 
protocol?)

If you don't like the way the freedesktop.org standards work or you want 
them to be more KDEish, stop whining and join the respective mailing 
lists.

This, BTW, holds for everyone and every standards body (except ISO, 
perhaps). If you have an interest in an evolving standard, join the 
working group, don't complain only if it's finished.

Marc

-- 
[Norton SystemWorks 2002] Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe
files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal values.
                           -- Norton SystemWorks 2002 Manual, p.160
                              (seen on Cryptogram 12/01)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: signature
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20030311/378d1d54/attachment.sig>