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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Excellent by captain+igor · 2004-01-10 06:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's really great seeing all these strides being made in making open source projects play well together. Now all I'd like see is some really user friendly clustering software for linux and I'd be a happy camper. Apple did it with xgrid why can't we do something similar on linux?
Re:Theme THIS! by OmniVector · 2004-01-10 07:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

my replacements for those two ugly citizens has been Rhythmbox and Galeon.

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