On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 01:04:15 -0400 (EDT), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Gnome and KDE will never merge because it would be very very hard and
>nobody would ever do it (unless you're volunteering here..). Harder
>than implementing every Gnome feature from scratch in KDE or vice
>versa. Gtk is not a drop in replacement for Qt.
Not to mention the philosophical differences between the two
products. KDE runs on a "do it" attitude, which is why they have
turned out, quickly, a lot of products that really aren't well
engineered at all. GNOME is much more deliberate, which means their
development is slower, but IMO will eventually result in a superior
product.
These design philosophies are incompatible (for obvious reasons).
Caveat: while I am not a GNOME developer, I am far more sympathetic to
GNOME than to KDE. First, Miguel is a good friend, while Mattias
Ettrich has been quite rude to me over the years. Second, I hate C++.
Kelly
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