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KDE And Gnome Together At Last?
HangingChad writes "eWeek is reporting about Novell's plan to combine elements of both into a unified desktop. Apparently the work has already started. Chris Schlager, vice president of research and development for SUSE, thinks the differences between KDE and Gnome developers have been overstated. Apparently he's not a regular /. reader."
Whats next? Cats sleeping with dogs?
Maybe he browses at +5. :)
I can't wait for KGplayer, twice the features, double the resource usage!
Setec Astronomy
Obviously, this must have been meant for publication on April 1st!
Michel
Fedora Project Contribut
Are they planning on unifying emacs and vi?!?
Knome or GDE?
I'd think getting your foot caught in a giant gear would hurt!
Maybe if KDE gets compromised too it could bring them closer together? *ducks*
Kant happen.
Reminds me of an episod of The Simpsons where Homer puts the Santa's Little Helper (dog) and Snowball II (cat) in to a sack because he wanted to cross breed them out of bordom.
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quote -
"He said he thinks the ability to offer customers a complete, soup-to-nuts solution will be a valuable addition. "We've learned our lesson from Microsoft." "
Does anyone feel a bit uneasy with that expression 'soup-to-nuts'?
Hot soup can burn my lips - I'm not a bout to put that you-know-where!!
Basically, an improved version of KDE.
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It's one of the lessons they're learning from Microsoft. :p
There is lots of choice of desktop on Windows: Win3.11, Win98, WinXP, Blue Screen ...
It's those evil Novell people stealing GNOME's valuable source code to include in KDE.
Nerd: Derogatory term typically directed at anybody with a lower Slashdot ID than you.
How about the second paragraph of the article:
Supporters of the two interfaces have often sparred with each other in flame wars on Slashdot, mailing lists and newsgroups.
Looks like submitters don't read articles either.
In Soviet Russia, articles before post read *you*!
Funny, how the next story down is people (jokingly) saying KDE just hacked Gnome's site. :-)
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
"We'll merge Vi and Emacs! That way, everyone will be happy!"
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Oh, a sarcasm detector. Now that's a useful invention.
Corporations regularly push out restrictive Windows policies to stop users from tweaking the desktop beyond repair.
IT departments want a unified desktop - it'll lower support costs. Picture this help desk call:
HD: Sir, what desktop are you using?
User: I dunno.
HD: Do you see a K or a foot in the lower left?
User: Ummm, it's a foot.
HD: Hold on while I transfer you to a GNOME specialist.
User: A what? I'm not a gnome!
GnuDE ?
READY.
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Even the schools around here at adapting Linux...
:-)
I'm taking a university extension course in Linux device drivers. I brought my laptop and was running KDE. The guy behind me kept looking over, and finally asked, "it isn't Windows, what is it?" This was in a *Linux* class. I didn't have the heart to tell him it was FreeBSD
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
will that spawn imacs?
Novell:
The Open Source world consists of a massive herd of cats. They live by themselves, they do their own bizarre cat things, and they're awfully independent. They're talented but touchy. Some of them are awfully stubborn. Sometimes, one will get interested in something or gets an idea into its cat-brain, and start heading the direction of whatever's interested it. Sometimes other cats come along, and you get a whole pack swarming along. Occasionally a lot of cats get really interested in something (like a kernel), and then the sight is truly magestic, with a herd of cats pouring over everything that obstructs them from their goal. They're really quite unstoppable then.
The problem, Novell, is that right now a good-sized pack of cats have it firmly in their heads that they definitely and without question want to go *west*. There is another good-sized pack of cats that are absolutely certain that they want to go *east*. The combination has produced cats going in opposite directions colliding with each other and hissing and scratching at each other.
However, Novell, before you step smack dab into the middle of this writhing, temperamental herd and try to direct them to go *north*, I suggest that you keep in mind -- you are herding cats.
May we never see th