OSDL to Bridge GNOME and KDE

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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They both suck

[PenGun]

A pox on both your houses. Useless bloat.

    PenGun
  Do What Now ??? ... Standards and Practices !

typical

[penguin-collective]

Thanks: your post tells us all pretty clearly what kind of whiny and unprofessional people are advocating KDE. Thanks for doing such a good job advocating for Gnome.

Re:But...

[Just Some Guy]

Just out of curiosity, what functionality does Gnome lack that KDE has that one would need?

The killer feature for me is the KIOslaves framework. I love the fact that Kate can open files from the local filesystem or via SFTP, Samba, WebDAV, FTP, HTTP, Usenet, IMAP, or any other protocol that I have a handler for (run "kinfocenter" and look in the "Protocols" section to see which ones your own system supports). Want to get a too-close look at Slashdot's front page? Open "http://slashdot.org/" to load the source. After you've made your changes, save to "fish://oldserver/home/you/index.html" to upload it via SSH to a server that doesn't support SFTP. Since that functionality is build into KDE and not Kate itself, I get the same feature in Konqueror and every other KDE app I use.

I've used this example before, but I use the KMyMoney personal finance program. I occasionally want to take a peek at my checking account while I'm at work. Rather than copy my account file from home each time, or run it remotely and tunnel the X display to work, I just tell KMyMoney to open "sftp://homeserver/home/me/myaccount.kmy" and it does the right thing.

I've become completely addicted to this and absolutely refuse to switch to a system that doesn't support similar functionality. Gnome VFS has similar goals, but support doesn't seem to be nearly as pervasive as under KDE.