Re: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-19 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:17:37AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You seem to be ironic on that, but in fact I think it's a serious issue. > The amount of work and time wasted in parallel projects doing the same > things ten times is tremendous, and it's a shame that so much of people's > time

RE: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-19 Thread frodo
OZ>> FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Why can't the dumbwits, who run OZ>> those distributions and borrow ideas from each other, unify OZ>> their efforts and create The One True and Giant Distribution OZ>> (TM, under penalty of anti-blasphamy laws)? You seem to be ironic on that, but in fact I think

RE: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-18 Thread Dvir Volk
> > it seems to me like so much double work on parallel KDE/Gnome > > components is being done on one hand, while the differences between > > the K and the G become smaller and smaller on the other hand, it's > > just absurd. > > Curious to notice that no one speaks about the horrible, criminal a

RE: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > but the unifying of the GUIs is something that should come from the > _desktop developers themselves_. both Gnome and KDE, and especially us > as users, could benefit from unified themes, widgets, styles, and > interface consistency. > > it seems to me lik

RE: Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-18 Thread Dvir Volk
> 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. true enough > I don't think that unifying KDE and Gnome would do the trick.

Against Soddomite Beds (was: Re: redhat's new desktop policy)

2002-09-16 Thread Omer Zak
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