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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: Want to fight? Package a SOLUTION

Submitted by KevinWPeters on Wed, 2004-04-07 12:24.

I fully agree with this view. Most of the problems I run into when converting friends to Linux is the shear choice of so many different things. It becomes overwhelming.And then when it comes to troubleshooting problems, you have to search the net, maybe get on IRC, call friends on the phone, and generally bust your @$$ to figure out what is going wrong. I think KDE and Gnome should combine their efforts into a signle desktop environment for Linux, and then work on getting the best/easiest software bundled into it. I use Gnome primarily, but I use the KDE libs a lot (for programs such as Scribus). Get a typical Linux install down to a single cd, and it won't be as intimidating to the average user.

Just my .02

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