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[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On Saturday 19 July 2003 03:06, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> I think it can only be beneficial for a KDE developer to also know about
> how the GNOME infrastructure works. We should take this opportunity to
> learn something from our competitior. They certainly know something
> about developing a desktop environment. So even if Havoc would
> exclusively talk about internals of GNOME, I would consider the talk
> perfectly on-topic for the conference.

such an opportunity to learn about GNOME can be had in many places. it is, 
IMHO, not necessary to take time, precious as it is. from a KDE conference to 
discuss something so completely off-topic.

to be completely frank, the concept that it would help us understand the 
"other side of the coin" of the desktop issue is simply a way to attempt to 
convice KDE to accept GNOME-centric talks into a KDE conference.

to suggest that the many KDE developers who are ready and capable to forward 
interop do not already understand and appreciate their strategies and 
technologies is ludicrous. to suggest that we can't discover such things by 
doing a few minutes research online is equally ludicrous.

this conference is about KDE. there are other more appropriate places to learn 
about other technologies. or should we sit through a presentation by 
Microsoft about .Net at the next KDE conference? or shoudl we sit through a 
talk by Rik van Wiel (sp?) about the Linux VM? it's all equally irrelevant.

unfortunately someone has yet to actually answer my original question (which 
has left me a little more that perturbed.i must say): is this talk by going 
to be about GNOME (period), or is this talk going to be about KDE and, 
secondarily, how it relates to GNOME???

the GNOME camp undestands marketing and persuasion. it's about time KDE does 
as well.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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