Re: [OT] Very interesting interview with Nat Friedman

On Friday 16 April 2004 23:36, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci959322,00
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> A very interesting interview with Nat Friedman... I couldn't
> help but silently smile while reading "between the lines of
> the actual wording":
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> * Nat manages to answer the very first question without even
>    mentioning GNOME once. The question was: "What kinds of
>    resources is Novell going to devote to Linux on the desktop?"
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> * The first time he mentions GNOME is in his 4th answer -- but
>    he only lists it alongside "KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Eclipse"
>    as one of "five primary platforms".

I had the same feeling....

Nevertheless I'm still on holidays in france during the last week of august 
this year ;-)

> * Finally, he seems to appreciate KDE's new stage to become an
>    "integrative desktop" and the effort Zack Rusin put into the
>    "QtGTK" libary (also without giving a link or naming them):
>    "We also need to focus on consistency in the community. If
>    we say 'file or print', we want to see the same dialog box
>    come up."

I'm planning to try to do this for one gtk app, probably xmms (or gimp). I'm 
currently setting up a project on fd.o for this kind of stuff. I will let you 
know...

Bye
Alex
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