Re: Hrm. Now I know why this list is dead

[Mosfet <mosfet jorsm com>]

Can you point to a success other than possibly Drag 'n drop?

On Sun, 23 May 1999, you wrote:
> > and that Gnome developers designed implementations from scratch with
> > no thought of compatibility to KDE, this is not a statement I can
> > take very seriously.
> 
> Then you know little about the history of GNOME and KDE.
> 
> You might notice that the .desktop format is similar to the KDE one.
> At that time we tried to make the GNOME .desktop files be
> interchangeable with the KDE ones.  We failed.  But it was not a
> deliberate decision, it was a human mistake.
> 
> We did have a DnD protocol called Xde, and it took a long time and a
> lot of resources and many weekends for various team members to move
> from Xde to Xdnd because it was being pushed by KDE as the DnD
> standard for the desktop (and because it was better than Xde too).
> 
> Miguel.
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