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KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines

Posted by timothy on from the which-is-smart dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Competing infrastructures may foster improvement in each desktop, but the Gnome and KDE hackers still know how to work together when needed. The Free *nix desktop has been improving quickly. Red Hat's unified desktop was controversial, but obviously the right decision for regular users. Now that KDE and Gnome have decided to combine their Human Interface Guides, it can be done right--by the developers themselves. Note: they also want to involve 'people working on other non-KDE non-GNOME HIGs.'" Update: 02/03 20:19 GMT by T : Apparently not everyone's browser can read http://freedesktop.org, so the initial link up there now sports a "www" as well. And it's .org -- sorry.

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  1. KDE *and* Gnome co-operate? by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hell must be frozen over now.

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  2. Oh dear god. by Kenja · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cats and dogs... Living together. Panic in the streets.

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  3. Obviously right == controversial? by Mendax+Veritas · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If Red Hat's decision had been "obviously right", it wouldn't have been "controversial".

  4. link doesn't work? by raix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It works great in IE :) tee hee

  5. Re:In a related story... by Bunji+X · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nice, they finally managed to gather all the morons on the net in one single site. :)

    Please post more hillarious links when you find them!

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  6. Re:In a related story... by Bunji+X · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) Intelligence is not the same thing as sharing a specific political view, or nationalistic view for that matter.

    2) Who made you the judge of what is anti- or pro-American? I think a lot of American socialists would disagree with you.

    3) First complaining about lost karma, m.o.c., or whatever, then saying you don't care? I think we have a word for that kind of behaviour. It begins with "hypo" and ends with "crite".

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  7. Re:In a related story... by Bunji+X · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) Saying that specific views are "obviously correct" would by many be considered the pure definition of stupidity.

    2) Shouldn't the fact that you have been a student all your life tell you something? Btw, having the ability to change points of view when proven wrong is not a character flaw, it's a strenght and... a sign of intelligence. (That said, I still won't buy your point of view of pro- and anti-american.)

    3) Wrapping complaints in a joke or a smile is the sign of cowards and hypocrites.

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