OSDL to Bridge GNOME and KDE

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 5, 2006 @06:02AM from the one-api-to-rule-them-all dept.

Trax88 writes "Open Source Development Labs is previewing work that will attempt to make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE. The effort, called Portland Project, began showing its first software tools on in conjunction with this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Using them, a software company can write a single software package that works using either of the prevailing graphical interfaces. Working with Freedesktop.org on unifying interface issues, they plan to release a beta version of the software in May and version 1.0 in June. Ultimately, advocates hope that it will be part of a larger but separate effort called Linux Standard Base, which is designed to make the operating system easier for software companies to use."

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Why use Gnome at all? by Deckape · 2006-04-05 08:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

In my opinion Gnome is a waste of programming. Kde is far more flexible and has more to offer then Gnome. The main reason I chose to use Suse vs. Ubuntu was KDE. Unless like on Debian where you can install both and I fell like wasting HD space do I ever install Gnome. In my opinion lets concentrate on revising Wine so that it can operate more Windows based based programs and also Mac. Then and only then will Linux become a true household OS!