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Yet Another Call for Linux Standardization

Posted by michael on from the eggs-in-one-basket dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Newsforge has an article Commentary: United We Stand...the Division in the Linux World, in which David Meyer argues that UnitedLinux will provide standardization for the Linux community that will allow it to win the desktop market from Windows. The article has a number of supporting comments, but then this one particular negative comment that disagrees with David. This particular comment offers an alternative view on the need for standardization. This aternative view that is put forward simply argues that 'Over what is almost twelve years we have pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps. We have done this using a development model that allows us to produce software that proprietary vendors cannot compete with', and then summarizing that 'the Linux community does not need to set up businesses with the specific intention of trying to "win" users from Microsoft; all we have to do is continue to develop software in the same way, and the users will make the switch all by themselves'."

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  1. Barriers of inconsistancey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll
    1. One desktop enviroment PLEASE! Im sick of gnome getting in the way, from a developers and a users point of view, kde is much better! Scrap gnome and then we will have a unified desktop
    2. Libs, scrap re-invented wheels and and standardise on one, get rid of toolkits like motif, xaw, gtk, fox, tk, xul, openofficetk, fltk , curses (and many other obscoure ones) and standardise on qt/kde, the standard toolkit
    3. One kernel, scrap the fucking hurd already, its braindead, linux is much better
    4. Fix the broken keymaps! On a UK qwerty keyboard, you can input a euro by pressing altgr+4, but in linux, you get ¼ instead! Dont forget that the windows key should work in linux too (pop up the k menu, it does in some distros, but not all)
    5. better dialogs. As a user, the kde interface is very intutitve, but in gtk the dialogs suck, for serious work, the gtk file dialog sucks!


    This is not a troll, but as a devloper for linux these are REAL peeves