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Off-Topic: Original GUI GoalsOff-Topic: Original GUI GoalsPosted May 20, 2004 15:37 UTC (Thu) by doodaddy (guest, #10649)In reply to: Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals by mrshiny Parent article: The Spatial Way I have seen a word doc in a browser, and you make a good point that uses can be made of this feature. I guess my point is that I don't see the strong connection between this kind of stuff and a desktop. I've got to take all of Gnome (or KDE) or none. They aren't really "desktops" but exclusive, expensive programming uber-environments. They each have an entire stack of (heavy) libraries, except that you can't interchange the layers of the stack. That is what I mean by violating the Unix Way. I wish a particular interprocess tool or two had calcified before desktops were built on top of them. (No one seems to like Corba.) In the meantime, Gnome and KDE suck up all the media oxygen for the "desktop wars" when they are too similar in the grand scheme of things to be worth the discussion. And the final choice of desktop will mean the final choice of a whole stack of libraries. I'd rather see the battle of *desktops* be somewhere else. That is all.
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