Hi, This post, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2002-February/msg00015.html to some GNOME mailing list got /.ed recently. Quoting from the post:
It might also be useful to organize a specific joint project, something that would improve the coherence of a GNU/Linux system which uses parts of both GNOME and KDE. The idea that occurred to me was to work on unifying theme definitions, so that a user can define a theme just once and have it work with both GNOME and KDE. Perhaps others will have a better suggestion.
I would love to see something like this happen. However, IMHO, I think something like this should be more than just KDE and GNOME. I would like to see something like that as a more or less Linux (and BSD, etc), or X11 standard. It seems to me that Wine could benifit from something like this. Basicly, Wine is just a Unix/X11 toolkit that happens to have the same API as MS Windows and includes a binary loader right? Or am I completely off base here? Anyway, GNOME programs tend to look and feel like GNOME programs, KDE programs tend to look and feel like KDE programs, and Wine programs tend to look and feel like Windows programs. So could something like this work for Wine? Could Wine programs inherit their look and feel from some kind of universal theme? That would surely help the Windows programs integrate into the X desktop. So I guess I'm asking, would this work for Wine, and if so, is anyone interested in doing it? If the first answer is yes but the second is no, could anyone provide me with some pointers for getting involved with doing some a project myself? (Both the work on Wine, and on GNOME/Gtk/KDE/Qt/etc.) Also some of the replies to RMS's post suggested this was an itch none of the GNOME people felt like scratching, because none of them used KDE programs. I thought perhaps the Wine people would feel more like scratching this itch, because most of you probably use Wine programs along side of atleast either KDE or GNOME applications, if not both. Sorry if this has been a bit off topic, or if I don't really know what I'm talking about. --Tim Ringenbach
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