Advice for Red Hat/Fedora
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 00:25:07 UTC 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Frode Petersen <fropeter at online.no> wrote:
> Henning Larsen skrev:
>
> > Is there any initiative from anyone to get rid of these problems. I
> > don't want gnome, I don't want KDE, but I want krename and nautilus.
> >
> > Could those and other programs get freed from KDE/Gnome?
> >
> > I thought Linux is about openness not lockin like it is now.
> >
> > Henning Larsen
> >
>
> Some years ago there actually was an initiative launched, intended to
> come up with an environment-neutral target for development, so that
> programs written towards that target would run on the gui on the user's
> computer without the need to pull inn things from the other one. It
> still exists:
>
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
>
> I don't remember how long ago it started up, but I perceive it as being
> quite a few years ago. I believe it was either FSF (Free Software
> Foundation) or OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) that started it.
> (They are now merged into The Linux Foundation).
>
> Considering the original intent if the project, and all the years that
> have passed since it's inception, I don't think that their achievements
> have been remarkable. I guess KDE and Gnome proved to be too fast moving
> targets to keep up on two fronts.
>
> I really wish they had succeeded!
Why?
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