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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Announcing Yast-GTK (forw)
- From: Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:41:12 +1200
- Message-id: <20060826044112.GB26924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >And while you are at it: Can the next SoC project please remove the
> >gnome dependencies from zen (and other system services) and offer qt/kde
> >alternatives for those who only want to run a kde desktop?
>
> Forget it. That would require that someone writes a qt# library and
> possibly kde# libraries first in order to then rewrite zmd and other
> zen stuff thats written in mono. That someone would then have to
> constantly maintain all the stuff. IMNSHO that's never going to
> happen.
That looks to me like that in a lot of peoples' opinion, the "forget it"
also applies to novell-zen: there's little interest in running a desktop
(esp gnome) just for basic system services. Billy made that mistake many
years ago, and boy fell he on his face.
Volker
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> >gnome dependencies from zen (and other system services) and offer qt/kde
> >alternatives for those who only want to run a kde desktop?
>
> Forget it. That would require that someone writes a qt# library and
> possibly kde# libraries first in order to then rewrite zmd and other
> zen stuff thats written in mono. That someone would then have to
> constantly maintain all the stuff. IMNSHO that's never going to
> happen.
That looks to me like that in a lot of peoples' opinion, the "forget it"
also applies to novell-zen: there's little interest in running a desktop
(esp gnome) just for basic system services. Billy made that mistake many
years ago, and boy fell he on his face.
Volker
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