GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 10, 2004 @06:42AM 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!"

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KNOME by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-10 06:45 · Score: 5, Funny

So what are we going to call this, KNOME? Or maybe GDE...
Even more importantly by d99-sbr · 2004-01-10 06:50 · Score: 4, Funny

OO.org has apparently been translated to Bork!
IOSlaves? by kc3lai · 2004-01-10 07:06 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought we can't use such intrusive naming anymore??
When will they integrate the windows event loop? by OrangAsm · 2004-01-10 07:20 · 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!!!
Wow. by InsaneCreator · 2004-01-10 08:17 · 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.