🚀 go-pugleaf

It was the Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:05:22 -0700...
..and Tim McNerney <mumbly@netcom.com> wrote:
> Matthias Warkus wrote:
> > 
> >> - How hard would it be to make an application both KDE aware and GNOME
> >>   aware?
> > 
> > Hm... Very. You would have got to separate the UI from the back end
> > completely, write the whole beast in C++ and write two front ends,
> > one using GTK--/Gnome, the other one Qt/KDE.
> 
> And that is a shame. I realize it will never be "easy", but I expect it
> could be made quite a bit more palatable if people (no, I don't have
> time to be "people" at this time) put some effort into it.

How so? Tell us.

> I realize
> that to some extent this is happening, but this one issue alone would
> make all the other questions asked initially moot.

How so?

> Suddenly I can have
> Gimp and KOffice running "native" at the same time. Sure, they both work
> fairly well under X, but there is so much more potential.

mawa
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