KDE & Gnome Usability Engineers Interviewed

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 10, 2003 @02:31AM from the talking-with-the-men-with-the-plan dept.

Gentu writes "After the recent flamewar between the KDE and Gnome user camps, OSNews brings together the most influencial KDE and Gnome usability engineers to talk about how they will be able to overcome a number of obstacles in order to 'unify' KDE and Gnome in ways that could bring to the Unix desktop an easy to use, integrated and fully interoperated DE to better compete with the commercial alternatives. Waldo from SuSE and Havoc from Red Hat are taking part to the interview, and also Aaron, the head of KDE's usability."

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Re:Integration across the desktop by IamTheRealMike · 2003-03-10 02:51 · Score: 2, Flamebait

If Havoc and Waldo are serious about integration then this problem will have to be addressed in earnest. I do not want to see KDE come down a level in technology just so that GNOME apps can integrate into KDE.
The real problem that needs to be addressed in earnest is the idea that C++ and KDE are fundamentall superior to GObject C/GNOME. While certain KDE developers persist in having a "KDE is perfect, GNOME is teh suck" attitude, the biggest barrier to integration is attitude, not technology.