On Fri 07 Aug, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Rainer M Duffner writes:
> > What is more important than the GUI (which can't match RISC-OS anyway),
> > is the ORB-stuff they (the K-Team or what it is called) are going to
> > migrate into KDE.
> > K-Office might remove the need for Linus T to use PowerPoint for
> > business-presentations....
> 
> GNOME also is using Corba.

Yes, I know.
Yet another GUI-war on the horizon....<G>

> I'll believe the applications when they are much further along --
> right now, a lot of them are vaporware, both in GNOME and in KDE.

IIRC, this is even more true for GNOME - KDE is somewhat more advanced
in this direction.
But as I said, the most important thing is, that people aren't anymore
concentrated on the kernel only.
As if the kernel was everything !


But then, I use BSD anyway :-)

cheers,
Rainer
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