Desktop Development Specialization

[Joel Juliano]

Now, see what I'm talking about last October 2004.
This is apparently what's happening now in Linux.


On 10/12/04, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> Seems like a bad idea.
>
> Why?
>
> - Many people use both
> - Many people (most?) mix qt and gtk apps happily. Personally i love my
> gnome, but i also like kde programs such as konqueror, kompare, etc.
> - Many systems has users with different opinions
>
> Besides, it would be a waste of resources an split the distro in two.
>
> I am seeing a greater and greater amount of kde/gnome trolling on the
> lists these days. Why? Gnome/kde is getting tighther and tighther
> technically - mixing apps between them is absolutely no problem, and
> that is a Good Thing.
>
> tir, 12.10.2004 kl. 03.17 skrev joelbryan:
> > What if Fedora Core development was divided in two divisions, the
> > GNOME division and the KDE division, the releases will be available to
> > be GNOME-only or KDE-only releases on seperate iso's, the GNOME ISO
> > will specializes only on GNOME softwares and applications. There will
> > be a micro-managed bug fixing for GNOME-only related softwares, the
> > effort will be concentrating on much more focused approach than the
> > traditional (hybrid ISO's), same to the KDE ISO, wherein include a
> > KDE-only related (or specialized) softwares and applications.
>
>