What's up next in Linux desktop standardization? (DesktopLinux) [LWN.net]

What's up next in Linux desktop standardization? (DesktopLinux)

Posted Dec 12, 2006 23:38 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: What's up next in Linux desktop standardization? (DesktopLinux) by quintesse
Parent article: What's up next in Linux desktop standardization? (DesktopLinux)

I agree, Portland project doesn't try to change look and feel of GNOME and KDE desktops. Thus "far more consistent look and feel ... between KDE and GNOME" sounds like a wrong conclusion. However, read this part:

TrollTech's Qt 4.2, the primary KDE application framework, is also using Portland 1.0 to provide developers with tighter integration with the GNOME desktop environment.

It sounds like Qt and possibly KDE applications will look and feel less out-of-place on the GNOME desktop. And it could work the other way around.

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What's up next in Linux desktop standardization? (DesktopLinux)

Posted Dec 13, 2006 22:55 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The Qt folks are integrating the glib event loop that sits under gtk/Gnome; I believe that 4.2 will be the first to ship it. The consequence is that KDE and Gnome widgets can be used in the same application and everything will just work, which is particularly nice for plugins.