pleasantly surprised

Posted Apr 26, 2006 8:19 UTC (Wed) by jjstwerff (subscriber, #4082)
In reply to: pleasantly surprised by Sho
Parent article: KDE's core library - Qt - included in new LSB desktop standard

I have a problem with the current state of affairs with both Gnome and KDE applications. All the applications under them will not only depend on the basic libraries but on all the basic parts of their system.

I hope that with the LSB-desktop specs people will realise that to make a functional program they don't need to depend on 20+ other programs.

pleasantly surprised

Posted Apr 26, 2006 9:52 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Er, the *reason* that GNOME and KDE programs depend on the GNOME and KDE libraries is because they *use* things from them, so as to avoid reinventing the wheel themselves.

I'd rather have GUI-related gunge occupying RAM and disk space only once, rather than over and over again, and having only *one* set of bugs, and with no maintenance skew...

... are you really arguing in favour of massive code duplication? Because it sounds like it to me.