On Tuesday 26 August 2003 00:16, Taj Morton wrote: > Hello Everyone, > Yes, I know you are tired of everyone complaining about how KDE and > Gnome don't work together very well. However, I have come to plea for > that very thing. > If Linux is *ever* to get to the desktop, KDE and Gnome apps *must* be > able to work with each other. > This means that drag-and-drop should work between Nautilus and KEdit. Yes, it should. If it doesn't either one or both are broken in some way. > Now that I've ranted my head off and probably offended a lot of people, > let me explain some of my ideas. > The way to do some of this is to add it at the X level. For example, > it's very lucky that we have a XClipboard. If we didn't, we'd have > Klipboard and gBoard. You wouldn't be able to copy and paste between > gEdit and KWord--not good. There are clipboard apps for KDE and GNOME, but they are not needed to copy&paste, that's handled at X level. > The answer to several other things is _standards_. For example, we need > a desktop standard. We should just have one ~/Desktop folder which You are posting to the wron list(s). You want to post to xdg-list freedesktop org instead. > This also needs to be standardized. That's what people are working on. See freedesktop.org > There really isn't much difference between KWord and Abiword, except > they use different toolkits. If the Abiword team was working with the I think they have very different approaches to document handling, etc. Just because both are wordprocessors does not mean they work the same or have the same goals. > I think it's time to work together. That's what everone is already doing. Seems your information is a little bit outdated. Cheers, Kevin -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Krammer <kevin krammer gmx at> Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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