On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > yes, gnome and kde are going to be ported. But I have been looking for that > moment for a long time, here is what I think: > > kde guys do the massive update all together, which is nice for high versions, > but for low versions I like the gnome policy of: update when you please, what > way you can update some programs while leaving older programs (less to d/l). > This is a problem with, high versions changes, in which you need all your > working software to be updated as well. In kde, the guys do supply most of > our needs. Gnome, is more flexible, and while most of the programs available > for gnome, are "gnome" programs, they are not developed directly by gnome. > Among those programs are: xmms (i did not see any comment on gtk2 on the main > page), xchat (the 2 is in progress), abiword (soon to reach v1 in gtk1. gtk2 > in two years or so...). when kde updates from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1m you will need > to update qt, kdelibs, kdebase, and what not... notice that > kdebase-nsplugins, did not change a lot since2.0, but an update is needed, > and this is only a small example.
The major change from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.0 is gtk 2.0 . Many of the major gnome applications have not yet been ported to gnome 2. This also includes gnumeric and evolution. It appears that all the major gnome programs have not yet ben ported to gnome 2. > > kde3 port is easly done, but I not know the status of gnome2/gtk2 porting, is > it hard? I believe that the change from gnome 1 to gnome 2 is bigger than the change from KDE 2 to KDE 3, in terms of different interfaces and different behaviour of programs. In some ways it could be compared to the change from KDE 1 to KDE2. > there are many 3rd party application which use gtk (it is one of the > best lgpl toolkits available), andwould like to know it they will be ported > to gtk 2 (linuxconf for example), and the reason why redhat and mandrake did > not include gtk2/gnome2 in theire distributions is that both of those > distributions use gtk for configuration of the desktop, and this will lead to > problems. A gtk2 version is a higher version update (rh 8.0, mdk 9.0). This > is MHO. At the time Mandrake 8.2 was out, gtk2 was not yet available. At the time redhat 7.3 will be out it will be an exciting new (and buggy) library. I certainly hope to see it in the next x.0 versions of redhat and Mandrake, and maybe then someone can volunteer to translate redhat's or mandrake's tools to Hebrew. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
