Re: Food for thought: Why (and how) should KDE and Gnome unite?

[Martin Konold <konold alpha tat physik uni-tuebingen de>]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, dep wrote:

> what they all have in common is what they do, within a fairly small
> range (of course, in abi and kword this will change). their chief
> difference is that each uses a proprietary document format -- no one
> can read or write to documents from any of the others.

All KOffice apps use XML. Filter for parsing MS stuff and Framemaker are
on the way.

Regards,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
// Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
Anybody who's comfortable using KDE should use it. Anyone who wants to
tell other people what they should be using can go to work for Microsoft.
Henry Baltazar, PC Week Labs writes:
	"Red Hat's desktop interface looks like CDE and Windows 
	 after a nasty car accident."