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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Harmonizing

Posted May 19, 2006 17:52 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Wasn't the KDE Harmony project the effort to clone Qt or something, and
didn't it die when Qt adopted the GPL?

My memory is fuzzy, but the name has definitely been used once or twice
before in the free software / open source community.

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.