[techtalk] GUI's

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 01:04:15 -0400 (EDT), Laurel Fan <lf25+ at andrew.cmu.edu> said:

>Gnome and KDE will never merge because it would be very very hard and
>nobody would ever do it (unless you're volunteering here..). Harder
>than implementing every Gnome feature from scratch in KDE or vice
>versa.  Gtk is not a drop in replacement for Qt.

Not to mention the philosophical differences between the two
products.  KDE runs on a "do it" attitude, which is why they have
turned out, quickly, a lot of products that really aren't well
engineered at all.  GNOME is much more deliberate, which means their
development is slower, but IMO will eventually result in a superior
product.  

These design philosophies are incompatible (for obvious reasons).

Caveat: while I am not a GNOME developer, I am far more sympathetic to
GNOME than to KDE.  First, Miguel is a good friend, while Mattias
Ettrich has been quite rude to me over the years.  Second, I hate C++.

Kelly

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