KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines

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Posted by timothy on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:35PM from the which-is-smart dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Competing infrastructures may foster improvement in each desktop, but the Gnome and KDE hackers still know how to work together when needed. The Free *nix desktop has been improving quickly. Red Hat's unified desktop was controversial, but obviously the right decision for regular users. Now that KDE and Gnome have decided to combine their Human Interface Guides, it can be done right--by the developers themselves. Note: they also want to involve 'people working on other non-KDE non-GNOME HIGs.'" Update: 02/03 20:19 GMT by T : Apparently not everyone's browser can read http://freedesktop.org, so the initial link up there now sports a "www" as well. And it's .org -- sorry.

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In a related story... (Score:3, Funny)

by leviramsey ( 248057 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:37PM (#5216986) Journal

Presidents Bush, Chirac, and Hussein were found making out in a hot tub.

We're losing sight of the important issue. (Score:5, Funny)

by OpCode42 ( 253084 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:38PM (#5217005) Homepage

We're losing sight of what the most important issue is here. Should a unified desktop be called GNODE or KNOME?

They are missing the ~experts~ on UI design (Score:3, Funny)

by SirCrashALot ( 614498 ) writes: <{jason} {at} {compnski.com}> on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:42PM (#5217030)

Microsoft!! Look at the beauty of XP. MS Linux:) [tuxfiles.org]

NOOOOO!!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:42PM (#5217037)

What's next, vi & emacs developers frolicing in the fields after a nice picnic? Then what? What fuel have we then for the flame wars?!?

Who's with me... (Score:5, Funny)

by DenOfEarth ( 162699 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:45PM (#5217057) Homepage

This is just great...I can't believe they want to combine the human interface guidelines into one document for everyone. What's happening to the open source community, people? Let's start a new project aimed at making things back the way they are supposed to be, with a different interface for every window, just like the command line has different forms for every command.
it's a bummer that sarcasm is so hard to write via text

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:2, Funny)

by bob670 ( 645306 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:50PM (#5217111)

We can always crack on Red Hat for trying to make money=)

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Guppy06 ( 410832 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:51PM (#5217124)

"What fuel have we then for the flame wars?!?"

BSD is dying.

None too soon! (Score:4, Funny)

by teamhasnoi ( 554944 ) writes: <teamhasnoi AT yahoo DOT com> on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:51PM (#5217131) Journal

As a mac (os X) user at work and a XP (GASP!) user at home, this news comes none to soon. This is what will get linux ready for dumbasses like me to use on the desktop.
I love how everything in OS X seems to be well thought out; XP on the other hand, may have been assembled after the MS Christmas party, you know the one where Ballmer dry humped Bill's leg and everyone laughed, got fired, and re-hired in the same night.
I hope that linux can get moving with the standardized (yet infinitely customizable) interface. Maybe throw in those spiffy vector icons (eye candy!), some way to never visit the CLI if I don't want to, and a way to make configuration eaiser.
But I digress. A standard desktop will only encourage linux. Those who want to run the u1tr4 l33t desktops can still do so, and the people who just want an easy alternative to windows will have one. Or buy a mac :)

Re:We're losing sight of the important issue. (Score:5, Funny)

by Dr. Smeegee ( 41653 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:51PM (#5217132) Homepage Journal

How about KMODE?

What is it about that acronym that sounds familiar?

Desktops.. (Score:5, Funny)

by grub ( 11606 ) writes: <slashdot@grub.net> on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:53PM (#5217150) Homepage Journal

So for many, many months I was using my OpenBSD machine thinking "Man oh man this looks like Windows. It even has a Start menu." Everything worked exactly as a Windows machine except for pokey games and the slight lags I'd notice once in a while.

My dream was shattered when I realized I was just VNC'd to my Windows machine.

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @03:56PM (#5217168)

We can always fall back on 1 versus 0. There'll always be fools who prefer 1.

Re:We're losing sight of the important issue. (Score:4, Funny)

by La Temperanza ( 638530 ) writes: <temperanza@softhom e . net> on Monday February 03, 2003 @04:00PM (#5217191)

G-NODE - the quasi-mythical IP that brinks geeks to orgasm when pinged.

freedesktop.org != freedesktop.com (Score:4, Funny)

by stevenj ( 9583 ) writes: <stevenj@alum.mit ... edu minus distro> on Monday February 03, 2003 @04:05PM (#5217235) Homepage

A hint to the Slashdot editors, who somehow managed to forget to proofread their post and URLs for the first time in memory. What is happening to Slashdot's high journalistic standards?

Re:They got the hint (Score:5, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @04:06PM (#5217240)

Or perhaps they got the hint from OS X.

Thanks Timothy! (Score:5, Funny)

by fobbman ( 131816 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @04:14PM (#5217303) Homepage

"Update: 02/03 19:56 GMT by T: Apparently not everyone's browser can read http://freedesktop.com, so the initial link up there now sports a "www" as well."

Appreciate that. I'm stuck with this low market-share browser [mozilla.org] that couldn't handle the URL. Appreciate the bone.

Re:Bad link...thanks... (Score:2, Funny)

by ahaning ( 108463 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @04:18PM (#5217331) Homepage Journal

Directive ServerAlias
Syntaxe : ServerAlias hôte1 hôte2 ...
Contexte : hôte virtuel
Statut : noyau
Compatibilité : ServerAlias est disponible à partir de la version 1.1 d'Apache

La directive ServerAlias défini un nom secondaire pour un hôte, utilisable dans le contexte d'hôte virtuels nommés.

Voir aussi : Hôtes virtuels sur Apache

I'm not surprised.

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:5, Funny)

by sean23007 ( 143364 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @05:12PM (#5217857) Homepage Journal

BSD is dead.

Is this supposed to be a flame war, or what?

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by ActiveSX ( 301342 ) writes: on Monday February 03, 2003 @05:55PM (#5218307) Homepage

emacs I still haven't figured out what it is ...

It's an operating system with a mediocre text editor and insane interface. It makes Windows XP look like BeOS.

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In a related story... (Score:3, Funny)

We're losing sight of the important issue. (Score:5, Funny)

They are missing the ~experts~ on UI design (Score:3, Funny)

NOOOOO!!! (Score:5, Funny)

Who's with me... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:5, Funny)

None too soon! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:We're losing sight of the important issue. (Score:5, Funny)

Desktops.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:We're losing sight of the important issue. (Score:4, Funny)

freedesktop.org != freedesktop.com (Score:4, Funny)

Re:They got the hint (Score:5, Funny)

Thanks Timothy! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Bad link...thanks... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:NOOOOO!!! (Score:3, Funny)

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