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KDE & Gnome Usability Engineers Interviewed

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Re:Integration across the desktop by manyoso · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is ironic because Qt is now GPL which is in accordance with the stated preference of the FSF and the GNU project. GNOME is part of the GNU project.

    GNOME was started because Qt was not free. Now, Qt is free, but GNOME developers are concerned for the proprietary developors who might wish to create third party apps.

    The irony presented in all it's glory:

    "For example, they may appeal to the ego, promising "more users for this library" if we let them use the code in proprietary software products. Popularity is tempting, and it is easy for a library developer to rationalize the idea that boosting the popularity of that one library is what the community needs above all."

    (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html)