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Re: KDE vs GNOME
by Jeremy Petzold on Thursday 06/Sep/2001, @11:42

every one keeps refering to ximian v. KDE but remember that ximian is a company and has Redcarpet and evolution as product. KDE is a not profit Org and would therefor not have some features that ximian does. however, since KDE is more feature ritch and easier to integrat stuff into thanks to Kparts, I think it would be realy cool if TheKompany.com came out with its own version of KDE that it could use to leverege its app onto. then one could see a redcarpet type application and TheKompany.com has an outlook type app that does what evolution will do. as far as it is now though, comparing ximian to kde is like comparing apples to oranges, it would be better to compare the stock Gnome DE to KDE.

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Please, a standard installation of KDE
by Alain on Thursday 06/Sep/2001, @13:58

> I think it would be realy cool if TheKompany.com came out with its own version of KDE

O please, no... It's enough complex now with as many KDE as distros...
As I already said elsewhere, I think that it would be better to define a standard KDE installation to be used by all the distros.

I don't speak about the compilation mode, but about the name of directories used and so...

I have read yesterday that for compiling a KDE app on Mandrake 8.0, it is necessary to do something like export KDEDIR=/usr/ What a foolish thing !! If Mandrake don't know how to install KDE, I wish that the KDE team explain how to do...

I repeat (sorry...) : the definition of a standard installation of KDE would be very useful for all the users.

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Re: KDE vs GNOME
by Gaute Lindkvist on Thursday 06/Sep/2001, @14:14

KParts is not something unique to KDE.
GNOME has Bonobo, which does about the same job, but is based on
CORBA, whereas KDE chose to go its own way.
Red Carpet and Evolution may be Ximians products, but they are just as free
as the rest of GNOME and KDE.
Why is this any different than the fact that Trolltech has Qt as a product (free), and this is used by KDE. Both things are perfectly fine.

Btw. Ximian and The Kompany should not be compared too much. All of Ximians products are GPL, The Kompany makes proprietary products, which is fine, but
mean that they can never be part of KDE.

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Re: KDE vs GNOME
by John Porter on Thursday 06/Sep/2001, @14:44

Yes, but Ximian's main buisness is GNOME, while KDE is not Trolltech's work.

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Re: KDE vs GNOME
by Loranga on Friday 07/Sep/2001, @01:16

Also remember that Ximian has a lot of influence on the GNOME core development. TheKompany just make applications.

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