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Freedesktop.org on KDE/Gnome, New Goals

Posted by simoniker on from the mmmm-juicy dept.

fdo writes "OSNews has a long and juicy interview with the freedesktop.org developers regarding many aspects of their project, including interoperability between GNOME/KDE, the new X Server, the new Hardware Abstraction Layer library, accessibility, package management and in general, all things desktop."

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  1. So I can copy and paste now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    WOW! Linux enters the late eighties!

  2. Naming too complex by amightywind · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know if GTK or KDE are too complex but these names sure are:

    Rayiner Hashem, Havoc Pennington, Eugenia Loli-Queru

    What ever happen to Dick and Jane?

    --
    an ill wind that blows no good
    1. Re:Naming too complex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      What ever happen to Dick and Jane?
      Sorry, they were outsourced.
  3. Lets shorten things a little.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows fanboy: "When will Linux look and behave exactly like WindowsXP and therefore be ready for the desktop?"

    Linux fanboy: "When will the Longhorn fake-commandline-console look and behave like bash and therefore be ready for serious work?"

  4. 'Nuff Said Already by llouver · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can hardly wait for the next Freedesktop.org article FreeDesktop.org updates web pages, which by my calculations is due in about 3.4 hours.

    But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it will be:

    FreeDesktop.org dreams about a better future (code release TBD)
    FreeDesktop.org builds a better X (code release TBD)
    FreeDesktop.org builds a better desktop (code release TBA)
    FreeDesktop.org builds a better menu (code release TBD)

  5. Re:Pfft. by spurious+cowherd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ummm...

    Last I knew a nipple was, by default, an ouput device

    --

    Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

  6. Re:Pfft. by archen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that's just what I need. Hours of tech support talking people through "sucking on breasts".

    "What do you mean you don't know how? A 2 year old could do that!"