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Re: I leave KDE.
by fault on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @21:24

> GNOME people such as Daniel Vaillant, Keith Packard, Havoc Pennington.

Keith Packard isn't a gnome "person" exactly. He's a XFree86 "person".

I'm not sure who Daniel Vaillant is, but if you mean Daniel Veillard, the author of libxml(2), he has nothing to do with libxml(2) being in xfreecvs. It was imported by Keith Packard as a dependancy to pkg/fontconfig. It's a damn good XML library. It's probably the best free/open one. It's a lot better than expat, at least.

> KDE is using GNOME libraries now, like libxml2, libxslt, libart_lgpl and librsvg

> Now KDE uses that shitty Bugzilla which is a nightmare to use.

Oh god. Once again, Bugzilla has nothing to do with GNOME! GNOME uses it. That's all. KDE is in the same position with Bugzilla as GNOME is. GNOME used debbugs until several years ago (late 2000 I beleive) like KDE did until very recently.

Bugzilla is tied to Mozilla, not anything else. Again, Bugzilla is one of the best free/open bug reporting/collecting packages available. It's definatly the most customizable. I agree that it has usablility problems in the default configurations, but it is very configurable. Usability is as good as the interfaces to bugzilla made.

> KDE is using GNOME libraries now, like libxml2, libxslt, libart_lgpl and librsvg

Because perhaps it saves in programming time? The libraries you mentioned are not tied architecturally in any way to GNOME, and they are all great libraries. Why shouldn't KDE use them?

I think you have a bad case of the "Not Invented Here" (NIH) Syndrome.

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