On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Oleg Kobets wrote:
> One of the lines say, that it's the best thing happened to linux, and I
> agree. Having unified desktop is much more organized, makes support much
> easier and besides, if linux was organized enough it just might beat MS to
> the masses. We do want that to happen, don't we ?
The coin has two sides.
About the Ultimate Goal, if it is to beat MS, then I am very concerned.
The Ultimate Goal had better be to help users get their jobs done, and be
empowered to do whatever they want to.
I don't think that unifying KDE and Gnome would do the trick.
Users may need to do things in a different way to get their jobs done.
Innovations may need to be made in UI design, and Linux had better have
the infrastructure to support completely different styles of UI design.
There are real support problems, in catering to various system
configurations (Gnome, GTK, custom ones, ...). But instead of forcing
everyone into the same mold (including those who have sound technical
reasons to do otherwise - such as embedded Linux systems), it would be
better to utilize the opportunity to develop new techniques for easing the
support requirements (like what autoconf/automake et. al. did for
installation under the various flavors of Unix).
--- Omer
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