RE: KDE / GNOME - Working Together ?

["Ingalls, Bruce" <BIngalls iso com>]

> From: 	Miguel de Icaza[SMTP:miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx]
> Sent: 	Monday, March 15, 1999 6:37 PM
> To: 	Havoc Pennington
> Subject: 	Re: KDE / GNOME - Working Together ?
> 
> 
> > Miguel has offered to place the Bonobo object embedding stuff in a
> > neutral namespace and work with KDE on it, but they don't want to use
> it.
> > And the people in Gnome who know about these things don't want to use 
> > KOM/OpenParts because they don't like how it works.
> 
> We encourage a bridge CORBA application that will bridge your stuff
> between both models ;-)
> FWIW, I heard many complaints about the first Dcom/Corba bridge from a
> major orb vendor.
> Hopefully, now that they have an agreement with the largest Dcom vendor,
> it has gotten better.
> 
> How about a corba service that sits detecting environments?
> If KDE is started, it spawns a service that traps KDE system events, such
> as, say a theme change, and
> generates a Gnome system event, so that Gnome apps respond. (and vice
> versa)
> This could also apply to TWine.
> 
> Miguel.
> -- 
> miguel@gnu.org
>