Re: kde or gnome?
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Griffiths wrote:
> LET THE FLAME WARS COMMENCE
>
This list has pretty much gotten over flaming about GNOME/KDE. We prefer
to flame about licensing and social-contract wording here. 8^)
> if you hae the QT and GTK libns in place then u can run apps from
> either.. even in other window managers...
This is a good point to keep in mind. YOu don't need to run *either*
GNOME *or* KDE. You can mix things. They're both pretty good in terms of
functionality and performance, from my experience. So if you like the
looks of GNOME then use the GNOME apps, and if you find something missing
from it, see if there's a KDE version. They'll co-exist perfectly
happily.
> also qt licensing remains an issue....
>
Qt licensing is not an issue. Qt is 100% free software, compliant with
the Debian free software guidelines and RMS approved. I believe there are
still issues concerning *compatibility* between the Qt license and the GPL
(in terms of linking GPL code to Qt libraries) or something like
that. But I don't have a reference. The issue is still there, but to a
much lesser extent than it once was.
noah
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