From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T19:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: is GUI a weak point?

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On 4/6/06, Carl Woodward <cjwoodward@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not sure if anyone saw this today on slashdot:
>
> OSDL to Bridge GNOME and KDE
>
> "Open Source Development Labs is previewing work that will attempt to
> make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE. The
> effort, called Portland Project, began showing its first software
> tools on in conjunction with this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.
> Using them, a software company can write a single software package
> that works using either of the prevailing graphical interfaces.
> Working with Freedesktop.org on unifying interface issues, they plan
> to release a beta version of the software in May and version 1.0 in
> June. Ultimately, advocates hope that it will be part of a larger but
> separate effort called Linux Standard Base, which is designed to make
> the operating system easier for software companies to use."


Of course somebody else has thaught about this before me, shame ;). Thank
you for the link it seems very interesting indeed.

I thaught something more general might be needed, more clearly abstracting
from the lower levels.

On the other hand it will be crucial to get it working soon, so I am
probably wrong!
And I have not studied this enough anyway to make stupid statements (well i=
t
has some rewards of its own to make stupid statements, it gets you smarter
when reading the replies).

Does anyone think that this direction is relavent for ruby?


Well I am not qualified to answer this question :(. But if it evolves into =
a
standard it will be, don't you think?

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Cheers
Robert

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