[desktop-discuss] Re: Vermillion b57 - careful!

[Doug Scott]

> 
> Dennis:
> 
> > Or we are living in the past to think that large
> complicated piles of
> > software can be rendered into a workable and stable
> state.  Maybe desktop
> > software like GNOME should be left to the Linux
> world and we should be
> > looking at KDE as an alternative.

Maybe we should copy Vista???? (Joking....)
  
> Have some sort
> of backup plan for when
> > GNOME really gets out of control.  Other than CDE.
> 
> KDE is also a Linux project, so I don't think using
> KDE would solve the
> problem of "leaving desktop software to the Linux
> world".  I also find
> it a bit hard to believe that the KDE project never
> has serious or
> annoying bugs that cause headaches and need to be
> fixed.

KDE is C++ code. There is your first bug :)

When can we compile C++ code with one compiler and have it link with code
compiled from another C++ compiler. I think that would be the first bug I would want fixed.

Doug
P.S. KDE is actually pretty cool considering the language it is built on.....
 
 
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