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GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts

Posted by timothy on from the so-happy-together dept.

Balinares writes "Great bunch of news on the Linux desktop unification front. After the unification of GTK and Qt themes that Slashdot already reported on, it is OpenOffice's turn to get the unified look treatment (screenshot 1, screenshot 2, screenshot 3). In related news, the recently released QtGTK library allows to merge the Qt event loop with that of GTK. In other words, this means you can now easily use KDE's DCOP, IOslaves, and, last but not least, file dialogs, from inside your GTK apps. (Screenshot of this feature used in XMMS2: 1 2). It comes with a tutorial that explains the basics. Finally, the new fuse_kio tool now makes it possible to use KDE's IOslaves directly at the filesystem level, from any Linux app. 2004 is really beginning well for all those of us who use Linux as their primary desktop!"

10 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. KNOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what are we going to call this, KNOME? Or maybe GDE...

    1. Re:KNOME by axxackall · · Score: 2, Funny

      KDOME - Kommon Desktop Object-Mixed Environment

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      Less is more !
    2. Re:KNOME by borg · · Score: 1, Funny

      KUM ShOT: the Kommon Unified Model Shared Object Thingey.

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      Fermat's other theorem: "I have a simple proof, but I can't write it down as I fear it's a DMCA violation to discuss it"
  2. Even more importantly by d99-sbr · · Score: 4, Funny

    OO.org has apparently been translated to Bork!

  3. IOSlaves? by kc3lai · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought we can't use such intrusive naming anymore??

  4. When will they integrate the windows event loop? by OrangAsm · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm dying to have my gnome/kde apps respond to WM_PAINT. Really. I want them to paint and paint and paint, all day long, then I will WM_DESTROY them!!!

  5. Re:Nuts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How the hell do they hope to sell any of this stuff if it's all encrypted in some Baltic lingo?!? ;)

    That's EXACTLY why OpenSource is free :)

  6. Re:Sweet First Post! by 1155 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Re:Sweet First Post!
    by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Saturday January 10, @02:31PM (#7938902)




    There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux
    will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never
    happened and never will with its current mindset.



    I'm sure the number of compatible software titles has
    nothing to do with it. Its all because the average user
    doesn't know what to do when they find "GNOME, KDE,
    WindowMaker, FluxBox" in a pulldown menu.


    Damn straight, the first poster was correct. Let me tell you my tale:


    So there I was, I was a windows user, and I was hearing all these great things about this thing called "leenux". And I was like, woah, I must have it, so I went to the local walmart, and there it was, a nice shiny mandrake box. And oh look, it says it is compatible with sooooo many things on the side of the box, this is going to be so easy!.


    So I took the box home, I put the shiny new mandrake linux cds into my shiny computer, and then I started installing. And then I did really, really well until I got to this one point. Now I am not quite sure wtf mandrake was smoking, but whatever this thing called kde is, I sure did not want to check that. It sounded like windows xp, but without the windows. And gnome, I'm going to have a lawn gnome? WTF is a window manager anyhow? How the hell am I to know this. OMG GIVE ME WINDOWS!!!




    This is why I use a mac.

  7. Wow. by InsaneCreator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look, they have MS Word running natively on Linux. It even has the "Fail" option in the menu! ;)

    Fail > Now
    Fail > When file not saved
    etc.

  8. Die Einheit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mr Torvalds, tear down this wall!