On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 07:28 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > > > The most serious issue is, that some professional FLOSS apps were > > written for GNOME 2, with GNOME 3 we fall back to an amateur OS > > regarding to some apps. > > > > - Ralf > > > > OK, I'm a n00b, so I don't always understand how things work. But that > sounds backward to me.... why would one write "professional" software that > depended on a particular version of a particular DE or WM? Wouldn't it be > smarter (more reasonable) to write the DE or WM around the needs of the > software or at least the kernel? > > Keith
Some apps might be part of the DE, but I refer to apps that base on some runtime libraries, perhaps it's a GTK issue, but IIUC GTK depends to GNOME and Qt depends to KDE. You can run those GNOME apss on KDE and KDE apps on GNOME, but when GNOME 3 replaces GNOME 2 some libs are missing or incompatible. More precise it might be an issue to basic libraries. But I'm not a Linux coder, somebody else might correct this half-truth. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321206737.4744.82.camel@debian
