Harmony project to get a Swing/AWT implementation [LWN.net]

Harmony project to get a Swing/AWT implementation

Posted May 19, 2006 17:36 UTC (Fri) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)
Parent article: Harmony project to get a Swing/AWT implementation

> The Harmony Project - which just saw its first birthday

This must be a new harmony project. The KDE Harmony project is more than a year old.

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new naming rule

Posted May 19, 2006 18:30 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

When naming a new FOSS project, always pick a name for which projectname.org is available. Then we won't have naming conflicts.

new naming rule

Posted May 19, 2006 18:36 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Good idea. But .org is pretty crowded with other stuff too....
Maybe we should petition ICANN for a new .foss TLD. Hey, the museums get
a TLD, why not us?

new naming rule

Posted May 21, 2006 5:46 UTC (Sun) by cthart (guest, #4457) [Link]

Except RS will jump in clamouring for .fs instead of .foss

:-)

Harmonizing

Posted May 19, 2006 21:23 UTC (Fri) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link]

> Wasn't the KDE Harmony project the effort to clone Qt or something,

Yes. I remember it. When I read the summary I thought "What does QT have to do with Java?" but this is clearly something different. I guess the other Harmony project is dead.

Harmonizing

Posted May 22, 2006 9:43 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Given that its raison d'etre was to produce a GPLed Qt implementation because Qt wasn't GPLed, and Qt is now GPLed, it would be a bit of a waste of time to continue with it...

Harmonizing

Posted May 22, 2006 15:01 UTC (Mon) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

Actually, even after Qt was GPL'd, there were a few that wanted to continue Harmony because they wanted it LGPL.

That movement never got very far AFAIK.