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KDE And GNOME To Share Component Architectures?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the compatibility:-what-a-beautiful-idea dept.

DragonHawk writes: "Miguel of GNOME fame and Rikkus of KDE/KParts fame have been talking about collaborating to build a common object component architecture for use in both KDE and GNOME. This would let developers and users alike share components from both projects, which would just rock." There's a lot to this one, and largely it's technical stuff, but it is definitely interesting.

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  1. Reverse forking?! :) by MikeFM · · Score: 5

    I always figured KDE and Gnome would over time merge and then each become more like a differently oriented distribution of the same code tree. While this isn't quite that far yet it is a good proof as to why opensource is better than commercial. Here's forking for ya baby, in reverse.. you fork and we merge. :) These guys rock. I love KDE and Gnome both and in fact use both on a daily basis. :)

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  2. Rivyn does not speak for KDE by Andrew+Cady · · Score: 5
    Daniel M. Duley posted this message to linuxtoday.com:
    Since none of the KDE core developers have been contacted, I am sorry to say I think Rivyn jumped the gun here. While Miguel may have talked to Rikkus - he's not a primary KParts developer. As a matter of fact, as far as I can tell no KParts developer or maintainer was spoken to at all. Thus this is misleading at best. Not that it wouldn't be good to interoperate, but no KDE core developer or KParts developer has been contacted so don't get too excited. A lot of KDE developers have serious issues with Bonobo such as overhead, and nothing has been discussed at all with them.
    Sorry guys, assuming Mr. Duley isn't a fraud (and there's no reason to believe he is), this looks like vapor.
  3. Duley doesn't know everything by Ur@eus · · Score: 5
    Rivyn has talked with a lot of KDE and GNOME developers about this, with mostly postive reactions. Duley is an ardent GNOME hater so I think that is why he downplays this so much.

    That said, the contact is at a very preliminary stage so it is correct to say that things are more at like the start of a new mid-east process than very close to a solution.

    What Rivyn is trying to do though is gather user support behind those developers on both sides that have a positive attitude towards the issue, in order to keep things moving.