Re: GNOME & KOM/OP

[Leareth <leareth geocities com>]

I'm afraid it's not that simple, the gnome's have decided that, under no
uncertain terms, it need to be in C, to help make bindings to other
languages easier.(And other reasons, but that's probably the nicest,
the only other one that worth mentioning is it keeps it consistant
with the rest of the gnome core.


On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>Yes, and KOM is toolkit independant, bases on CORBA, and so on. So
>why not that. It uses X swallowing, so it would work with Gtk+.
>
>Remember that the descision is not only about technical superiority.
>It's a descision that will dictate the way linux users work with
>their applications in the future.
>
>Considering this, a common object model is IMHO worth much much more
>than two different. So the little technical issues regarding KOM/OP
>should be worth nothing against the gain of making all KDE and Gnome
>apps interoperable in near future.
>
>   Cu... Stefan
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