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[gtk-list] Re: Proposal for a new project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Tue May 13 15:03:29 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:03:14 -0400
From: Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <x7vi4nw9nk.fsf@sn.no>; from Espen S Johnsen on Tue, May 13, 1997 at 07:42:55PM +0200
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On Tue, May 13, 1997 at 07:42:55PM +0200, Espen S Johnsen wrote:
> Recently there has been a lot of discussion about KDE/Qt and the GPL
> on comp.os.linux.development.apps. I won't say anything about that,
> but there is two reasons why I would never use or contribute to KDE:
> it is C++ only and uses a proprietary GUI toolkit (Qt).
>
> Now that a very nice free GUI toolkit exists (you know which), I think
> the time is right for a new project: The General Desktop Environment,
> GDE for short. Of course we should try to reuse as much code as
> possible from existing programs, and maybe from KDE. I have also read
> some rumours about Red Hat rewriting their tools to use GTK. If this
> is true, we could try to convince them to support GDE. In any case, I
> know a lot of cool programs will be written with GTK as the toolkit.
I will say that we at Red Hat are very interested in GTK, and we'd
like to see it become a useful standard for Linux (and hopefully
others) development.
To that end, I can arrange web and ftp space, and possibly more
mailing lists, if need be. I also have some free time I can devote to
administrative-type things.
Now my opinion on the whole thing... :)
I've seen plenty of net-projects die.. either from inactivity or from
flame-wars. I'm especially wary about this one, since a lot of the
success of the Gimp (and equally GTK) has been the small centralized
development team.
I'd say the majority of the usefulness behind such a beast would be to
reduce duplication of effort... certainly not a pipeline for flamewars
over how something should be done or look or whatever.
So, I suppose, I want to know what everyone else on this list thinks
at this point. Comments?
> If we start now, we may even catch up with the KDE project before they
> release their first official (non-beta) version. One program which will
> be necessary is as small and fast documentation browser for HTML 2.0,
> info and man pages.
One thing, you need to be realistic. KDE has been in the works for
about 9 months now... there really isn't much chance for us to catch
up that quickly, not that it's entirely impossible. :)
--
-Otto.
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