Re: GNOME universe

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

Montreal Sun Mar 14 18:41:36 1999

Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com> wrote:
> Gnome-in-own-universe thing should not be encouraged. Eventually things
> like paper.config should be shared between Gnome, KDE, and any other
> program that cares. Unfortunately Unix is such a nonstandard mess from the

Aha!  But you shouldn't name things like /usr/bin/panel if you expect
to standardize things between KDE and GNOME.  This is an important
point, because the GNOME panel will already be called /usr/bin/panel
and you'll have to name the standard something else.

The current GNOME packages really encroach on namespace.  I think it's 
rather poor policy, if you ask me.

-N.