Re: Magellan, the KDE e-mail integrated system

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Eduardo Silva wrote:

> People, just have a look at this screenshot. It's of a kind of Outlook
> for KDE. They are integrating many of their existing apps (KNotes for
> example) on this single application. Can't this be done in Gnome using
> Corba?
> 
> http://www.kdeforum.org/news/Stuff/magellan/magellan/magellan-welcome.jpg
> 
> Gnome has very good hackers who have done a great job on creating a
> Desktop Environment. But I think that the biggest disadvantage of
> Gnome is it's organization, or lack of. Maybe Gnome hackers should
> look at Linux's organization model, or KDE's, or other free software
> project's, and come up with one for them. Maybe you could have a big
> brainstorming on it the next time you all(well, most of) meet on the
> next Linux/Whatever Expo.

We can either start to play a "do whatever KDE does" game or we can
continue to follow the roadmap that already exists. The latter alternative
is much more likely to be more successful at producing polished results.

-- Elliot					http://developer.gnome.org/
The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far
more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat
pieces and avoids complexity.