Re: KDE and Gnome



On Tuesday 26 August 2003 00:16, Taj Morton wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> Yes, I know you are tired of everyone complaining about how KDE and
> Gnome don't work together very well. However, I have come to plea for
> that very thing.
> If Linux is *ever* to get to the desktop, KDE and Gnome apps *must* be
> able to work with each other.
> This means that drag-and-drop should work between Nautilus and KEdit.

Yes, it should. If it doesn't either one or both are broken in some way.

> Now that I've ranted my head off and probably offended a lot of people,
> let me explain some of my ideas.
> The way to do some of this is to add it at the X level. For example,
> it's very lucky that we have a XClipboard. If we didn't, we'd have
> Klipboard and gBoard. You wouldn't be able to copy and paste between
> gEdit and KWord--not good.

There are clipboard apps for KDE and GNOME, but they are not needed to 
copy&paste, that's handled at X level.

> The answer to several other things is _standards_. For example, we need
> a desktop standard. We should just have one ~/Desktop folder which

You are posting to the wron list(s).
You want to post to xdg-list freedesktop org instead.

> This also needs to be standardized.

That's what people are working on. See freedesktop.org

> There really isn't much difference between KWord and Abiword, except
> they use different toolkits. If the Abiword team was working with the

I think they have very different approaches to document handling, etc.
Just because both are wordprocessors does not mean they work the same or 
have the same goals.

> I think it's time to work together.

That's what everone is already doing. Seems your information is a little 
bit outdated.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer <kevin krammer gmx at>
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