Re: Owen Taylor's paper

Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> However unless both the Gnome and KDE projects suddenly make up and
> become friends the reality of the Linux desktop is that it will
> actually be 2 products, Linux/KDE and Linux/Gnome, because their UI
> design is almost exactly opposite.

How so? What is so different in the UI of GNOME and KDE?

> design of that app will be the exact opposite of what it currently is,
> and the exact opposite of everything else in KDE, and you will be
> laughed out of the room.  Few if any companies will want that support
> nightmare.
I haven't heard the the Evolution UI was taking a radical
new direction. Just moving to GNOME2 compliance. I've yet to see
much variation in GUIs, form openlook, motif/CDE, GNOME, or KDE.
Most of the changes are in the look of the widgets, but not enough
difference in most case to be an issue, they are theme-able now,
no I could change the look of most widgets. In fact that's one
of the things BlueCurve does.

> Any Linux desktop that will be acceptable in terms of minimal
> standard that is opposite of everything else in use on Red Hat Linux
> (Motif, KDE, Java, and Windows apps under Wine).

I still don't see where GNOME, 1 or 2, is "opposite" of
anything. Can you point me to some papers/articles that
discuss this in more detail?

	-Thomas