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

[Sirtaj Singh Kang <ssk physics unimelb edu au>]

On 23 Dec 1998, Tero Pulkkinen wrote:
[snip]
> 1) Set of libraries must be introduced that are independent of the
>    other Gnome or KDE things, especially widget sets. These libraries
>    must have corba interface, so that our existing common ground (IIOP)
>    can be utilized -- access outside corba interfaces to these libraries
>    is banned.

You're not asking much, are you? ;) Luckily, Torben also believes in the
joys of toolkit independence, so a lot of his new CORBA-intensive code
(kom, op, kfmIII and a lot of the koffice stuff)  uses STL only (no Qt
containers).

I'm not sure about much else, though. STL is still a pain on many
platforms where the Qt containers work just fine, so the incentive to
switch everything to STL is still quite low. But that could change.

-Taj.

Sirtaj S. Kang       taj@kde.org         ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au
School of Physics    Univ of Melbourne   KDE: The Desktop sans Toga