Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] Similar frontends?

[Mitch Allmond <gte203h prism gatech edu>]

I don't think it's important to keep the UI for the setup tools the same between
gnome and kde. Both have different styles. Besides, since when was the goal to
make gnome and kde similar? The goal is to make gnome and kde intuitive. With
this being the case, they ought to be done in any fashion desired while remaining
fluid in use.  The backend is the key issue. The users will never see the backend
nor does the backend depend on kde or gnome. This makes the joint effort of the
two different teams possible. I'm very happy to see it too.  People will always
have opinions, tastes, likes, dislikes, etc... Gnome and kde are just means to
please different views while being able to continue the use of a *nix OS. So
while the UIs can be different to help give that feel, the backends can be the
same as long as those backends are desktop independent. Hopefully, the gnome and
kde team can find other projects that will allow joint effort.  One that comes to
mind would be abiword. Abiword has advanced quite a bit and it's to kde's and
gnome's benefit for it to become even better. Abiword already has a gtk and gnome
port. It's a shame it doesn't have a qt port. Such a port would certainly make
abiword more mainstream and contribute to its overall development. Anyway, that's
my six cents.

Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:

> So it seems that the cooperation has finally begun.. This is a great step,
> not only for KDE&GNOME, but for Linux in general :)   Let's try to make the
> best out of this.
>
> The question I'm wondering about is the appearance of the frontends.  Isn't
> it important that the frontends that we make are as similar in appearance as
> possible (that is, same placement of buttons, same use of tabs and so on).
> After all, one of the goals of this would be that a non-technical user that
> has been using GNOME can easily help a friend that's running KDE configure
> his network without ever have tried the KDE frontend.  If KDE&GNOME shall
> continue to live peacefully (I must say that I trully believe that this is
> one of the first projects that will start to stop the "war" that the press
> sees between us) then it's important for us that the "standard computer
> operation" stuff should be similar from linux computer to linux computer so
> that users will find it easy to use, and not just confusing as it appears
> today.
>
> I've said it twice already, but I just have to say it again.. This is a great
> step for the whole community, KDE&GNOME working hand in hand :)
>
> PS. Andreas Pour does in NO way represent either me nor the KDE community in
> whole, I do not wish for you to believe that we are all this short-sigthed...
>
> PPS. Please, when replying to this message send it to both lists
>
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