Advice for Red Hat/Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Frode Petersen <fropeter at online.no> wrote:
> Henning Larsen skrev:
>
> > Is there any initiative from anyone to get rid of these problems. I
>  > don't want gnome, I don't want KDE, but I want krename and nautilus.
>  >
>  > Could those and other programs get freed from KDE/Gnome?
>  >
>  > I thought Linux is about openness not lockin like it is now.
>  >
>  > Henning Larsen
>  >
>
>  Some years ago there actually was an initiative launched, intended to
>  come up with an environment-neutral target for development, so that
>  programs written towards that target would run on the gui on the user's
>  computer without the need to pull inn things from the other one. It
>  still exists:
>
>  http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
>
>  I don't remember how long ago it started up, but I perceive it as being
>  quite a few years ago. I believe it was either FSF (Free Software
>  Foundation) or OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) that started it.
>  (They are now merged into The Linux Foundation).
>
>  Considering the original intent if the project, and all the years that
>  have passed since it's inception, I don't think that their achievements
>  have been remarkable. I guess KDE and Gnome proved to be too fast moving
>  targets to keep up on two fronts.
>
>  I really wish they had succeeded!

Why?


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