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Richard Stallman On KDE/GNOME Cooperation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-along-is-the-whole-point dept.

Karma Sucks writes: "For the first time that I remember, RMS is encouraging collaboration between the GNOME and KDE projects. He offers a concrete idea: Unifying the themes between KDE and GNOME. Matthias Ettrich once went far enough to propose a default unified 'Linux' theme that both Qt and GTK+ could support."

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  1. Woah by mosch · · Score: 3, Funny
    Woah now, I know RMS is considered to be an important fellow, but this is a crazy idea. Come on, cooperation between KDE and GNOME? What crazy idea is next, a free flow of information and help between BSD and Linux?

    Oh wait, my bad, this idea is so obvious it's rediculous. Does anybody have a valid reason why it hasn't happened already?

  2. Does this mean... by SteelX · · Score: 3, Funny

    We'll soon get GNU/KDE and KGNOME?

    1. Re:Does this mean... by sulli · · Score: 3, Funny

      You'll get GNUDE .. perfect for viewing and manipulating, um, photos.

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  3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, what company is going to pony up the millions of dollars it will take to hire the world's best interface designers ... and pay them to design it and code it?

    Or, uh, who's willing to copy Aqua pixel-for-pixel and take advantage of apple's existing interface design?

    Oh wait...

  4. OMG! Hell did freeze over! by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Debian is close to releasing and they are talking about a unified Linux desktop theme. Hell most have frozen over or this is a sign of the apocalypse!

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  5. Re:OMG! Hell did freeze over! by The+Great+Wakka · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not only that, but also Mozilla is reaching! Gasp! Could the Doom of the World be upon us?

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  6. No thanks, I'll just use OSX. (Or Win2k) by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 3, Funny

    shit man, the source is there, if it pisses you off *that much* then fix it.

    Getting rid of the inconsistency and incompatabilty in X is hardly a one man job.
    It's hardly a 1000 man job.
    Hell, removing inconsistency from X is like removing religion from church - it just can't be done.

    C-X C-S

  7. Re:Confronting the KDE propaganda machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    • Myth #11 - This article is written by Microsoft's Marketing Division

      Only paranoid people would have such thoughts. We at Microsoft have no reason to use such sleazy tactics.
  8. Re:GDE by abe+ferlman · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would be like the end of the Dark Crystal when the Skeksis and the Mystics merged into those weird light-beings after the restoration of the crystal.

    The only question is, if Craig Mundie falls into a pit of fire, does ESR disappear, or is it RMS?

    :)

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  9. Not quite. by Doktor+Memory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, the X has a fairly sophisticated clipboard model, maybe a little bit too sophisticated. [...] Also read this for a backgrounder about clipboard and X: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

    Gee, that's nice. Care to explain how to make that "sophisticated" clipboard model work with something other than plain text?

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  10. Unified Clipboard by Afrosheen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Version after version, distro after distro, app after app, I still don't have a unified clipboard to simply copy and paste between apps.

    Give me a unified clipboard, or give me death.

  11. Re:Well... by Yarn · · Score: 3, Funny

    More than just one boring, rather useless "base," it should cover MANY bases

    All our bases? (Sorry)

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