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Re: KDE and Google
by Cynical on Saturday 01/Mar/2008, @22:03

They seem much closer to GNOME-based technology at the moment; look at the number of SoC projects they got. There was also an article recently about GNOME getting help to improve its accessibility options from several companies, including Big G (http://www.linux.com/feature/127801). Could it have anything to do with the fact that KDE has Marble, which may one day rival Google Earth? Who knows.

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Re: KDE and Google
by Anon on Saturday 01/Mar/2008, @22:40

"They seem much closer to GNOME-based technology at the moment; look at the number of SoC projects they got."

I thought KDE got more last year?

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Re: KDE and Google
by Kevin Krammer on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @05:20

If I remember correctly KDE got more SoC students than any other mentoring organisation.

Commenter Cynical might refer to the combined numbers of all organisations from the GNOME ecosystem, e.g. AbiSource or Pidgin.

However, getting one huge amount of resources for the KDE umbrella has some advantages as well, e.g. if some subproject doesn't have enough mentors on its own someone from a different subproject can probably step in and delegate only project specific questions.

Of course this kind of self organisation requires that the KDE subteams reach a consensus on the allocation of SoC slots and we certainly can improve the internal allocation process, probably persuading Google to give us an increased number of students overall.

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Re: KDE and Google
by T. J. Brumfield on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @13:21

Google has supported QT and GTK, Gnome and KDE. However, past support doesn't rule out a KDE partnership.

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