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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. Forget Themes: Make the Clipboards compatible by rjamestaylor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use KDE but prefer Mozilla. I am *sick* of the incompatible clipboards that KDE/GTK use. As a matter of fact, I just complained to my co-worker about this and said, "This is why a monopoly is a good thing: someone to declare 'clipboard functions work this way or no way'". Damn I hate this.

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    1. Re:Forget Themes: Make the Clipboards compatible by grungeKid · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Actually, the X has a fairly sophisticated clipboard
      model, maybe a little bit too sophisticated. Hence it has traditionally been poorly understood and badly implemented in apps and toolkit.

      Gnome does the Right Thing with respect to clipboards, while QT2/KDE2 uses a more limited clipboard model. The good news is that QT3 and thereby KDE3 will do the Right Think and therefore interoperate a lot better with Gnome (as well as properly written X apps such as XEmacs)

      These comments are somewhat enlighening: http://dot.kde.org/1013076354/

      Also read this for a backgrounder about clipboard and X: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

  2. Better C++! by Otter · · Score: 5, Interesting
    To my mind, the single most important thing RMS could do to help out KDE is to push for better C++ support in GNU. Advantages are:
    • It will address what's generally felt to be KDE's biggest drawback.
    • Do the same for Mozilla and every other C++ project, free and non-free, running on GNU systems.
    • Point up the importance of the GNU contribution to what's generally referred to as Linux. (Not that I'm thrilled to see him getting more ammunition to pester us on that score, but it's not until I was cursing out the FSF for making C++ apps run so slow that I realized he's actually got a good point.)
    Besides, it's something he's in a position to actually do, and which doesn't require anyone to sacrifice existing work.

    (Poor guy -- he's like Alan Greenspan, where every public utterance is turned into a grand policy question.)

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