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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!"

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  1. Riding Coat-tails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Funny how now that KDE sees they are being left behind by all the commercial supporters of Linux Desktops, they are trying to unify with GTK.

  2. Microsoft Job! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Did anybody notice that Screenshots 1,2 show a Microsoft Employee on a report in Linux!!!

  3. Re:Sweet First Post! by rillopy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ever read The Grand Inquisitor, a chapter in Dostoevsky's The Brother's Karamazov? It's all over this topic of people not wanting the pressure of choice.

  4. Nice but... by Omega1045 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That is cool, but it looks like there is a bug in the software from the screenshots (1, 2, 3). It would appear the bug turns the text in the application windows into some foreign language.

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