OO as GNOME software (topic change)

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

> If you mean the GO vs. OpenOffice discussion, the board did make a
> final decision to just include both and not worry about trying to
> decide this issue for or against either suite in any way.

I'm interested in what we consider to be GNOME software... For example,
in the case of OO, is it still GNOME software if it doesn't use GTK+,
and provides Bonobo support through an external bridge? IMO, consistent
look and feel (where standard widgets are necessary but not sufficient)
is one of the major features a desktop environment has to offer a user.
I realize the OO team wants to maintain cross platform compatibility,
but I think AbiWord has a much more palatable approach to this. At the
very least it should look like the GTK+ theme, even if it uses its own
widget set underneath.

Or rather maybe I should ask it this way...what makes OO GNOME software
other than divine impetit? As far as I can tell its platform agnostic
other than the couple Bonobo<->UNO bridges people are working on to make
it interoperate. But considering that sufficient to be GNOME software
would be exactly like saying all GNOME software has become KDE software
and vice-versa if someone were to write a KParts Bonobo bridge (I
realize this is infeasible).

-Seth