RE: What do you expect?

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[quote="judgej"]My point was the statement along the lines of "we are not going to support our product being subordinate to any other product" went against the spirit that I personally attribute to the GPL. [/quote]I think that you are misquoting him.  What he was saying was more along the lines of "We are not going to subordinate our project to another project."  

I think that you would get more developer support if you started talking about how to link in other theme managers in *general*, rather than trying to talk them into dropping 80% of their codebase in favor of someone else's with which they're not familiar.

I don't think that they should do anything like that, any more than KDE should drop Konqueror and build Phoenix/Firebird/whatever into their WM.  Or that Linux should build KDE into the kernel.  Or to enhance performance, Linux could custom code the kernel in AMD specific machine code only.   Or so on and so forth.  A great deal of the idea behind open source is choice.  By contrast, while your proposal would make *your* choice easier, it would then preclude a lot of others from making their own choices.

--Matt