Usually Alan Cox posts a very detailed and informative changelist on www.linux.org.uk which is much more useful than the stuff you can find on KernelNotes or Cutting Edge .
The compression on DVD is relatively low (MPEG2 based). I believe a DVD video could be recoded to the Wavelet sheme without a big quality loss and still fit on a CD-ROM.
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If KDE moves away from standards (CORBA) and encourages developers to use its own (open, but KDE-specific) shared libraries for communication between the applications and the desktop, then we can forget about building applications that work well under both KDE and GNOME
This is not exactly true, because KDE did not drop CORBA for embedding, it just removed the necessity of CORBA for embedding and replaced it with a more stable, faster and much easier to use solution.
If there is really somewhen in the future some engagement to produce an application that runs under both environments, then it's easy to write a canossa plugin that itself exports a CORBA IDL interface to which the GNOMEish application can connect to. Remember, it's not just done by using CORBA itself, the KDE team would be forced to use the same interface GNOME has, otherwise the apps still wouldn't be interoperable.
Some removing the CORBA bloatware from the embedding framework (and nothing else is discussed here), is a very good step. Applications that still want to embed using some CORBA protocol can still do that, but the normal KDE application has a much faster solution. And it also makes application development faster and easier, and that's one of the main goals of KDE: Make it simple, make it easy to use, make it fast and make it useable NOW, not anytime in the future.
There is not much to say about DCOP. As it uses the ICE protocoll, it's pretty much open standard
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Usually Alan Cox posts a very detailed and informative changelist on www.linux.org.uk which is much more useful than the stuff you can find on KernelNotes or Cutting Edge .
The compression on DVD is relatively low (MPEG2 based). I believe a DVD video could be recoded to the Wavelet sheme without a big quality loss and still fit on a CD-ROM.
communication between the applications and the desktop, then we can forget about building applications that work well under both
KDE and GNOME
This is not exactly true, because KDE did not drop CORBA for embedding, it just removed the necessity of CORBA for embedding and replaced it with a more stable, faster and much easier to use solution.
If there is really somewhen in the future some engagement to produce an application that runs under both environments, then it's easy to write a canossa plugin that itself exports a CORBA IDL interface to which the GNOMEish application can connect to. Remember, it's not just done by using CORBA itself, the KDE team would be forced to use the same interface GNOME has, otherwise the apps still wouldn't be interoperable.
Some removing the CORBA bloatware from the embedding framework (and nothing else is discussed here), is a very good step. Applications that still want to embed using some CORBA protocol can still do that, but the normal KDE application has a much faster solution. And it also makes application development faster and easier, and that's one of the main goals of KDE: Make it simple, make it easy to use, make it fast and make it useable NOW, not anytime in the future.
There is not much to say about DCOP. As it uses the ICE protocoll, it's pretty much open standard
IMHO documenting their API and proprietary fileformats and make them freely available would
be enough.
An Open source Windows - what a joke. I guess they missed April's fools day. Microsoft would die as Netscape did.