-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/2009 03:17 PM, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/11/21 Carlos E. R. <>:
I don't understand why both interfaces have to be so different. To me the ideal would be an engine with different display modules (gtk, qt, ncurses, web) with all a similar display and usage.
Me to, though having a couple variants allows change without disrupting everyone at once, there's an automatic fall back. Making one core engine, which supported all the interfaces above, would make it much harder to change, as you'ld have to update all the client display & interaction modules to at same time.
You have a point there. Though the ncurses interface could do that role better (an emergency tool).
That said, in recent "Who runs GNOME?" thread on forum, programs like K3b were claimed by some GNOME-ites as native applications. We don't only have 256MiB RAM these days so the client library over-head is less critical. One example firefox used to be unacceptably fat and sluggish to me on a KDE system, whereas now it's viable as the default browser.
Well, I'm aware that k3b is a kde app, and I'm happy to be able to use it inside gnome. Sometimes I prefer it to the gnome native burning apps, in fact.
So I think Will has a point, that the Qt based programs are likely to be able to fool many end users.
If there's GNOME/KDE/XFCE interoperability issues, isn't that something to refer to freedesktop.org?
Dunno. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2-ex-factory "Emerald" GM) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksIUqsACgkQU92UU+smfQVF0ACfVKmrqJ+Kgym2DjBybPNRtEth UyQAnjim5vEiFmzcLwxi7lP9mVGKPA00 =9/Xq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org