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slave:
Don't get me wrong, I want Linux to have a unified desktop for it, but that doesn't mean I want to eliminate all other desktops.  Frankly I think GNOME  and KDE are just as "unified" as the Windows desktop, and certainly can be as pretty.  I have an updated version of Mozilla on my computer that has AA fonts enabled and the rendering looks just as good as Windows or OSX.  When Galeon 2 comes out I'll have a fast, gnome-integrated browswer based on mozilla.  I think both Gnome and KDE are certainly very usable, pretty when used on a modern distribution, and will only get better with time.  Remember Gnome 1.2 and KDE 1.x in Red hat linux 7.0?  Those looked like shit!

solo:
Hey, why *not* make a standard UI layer... we just make a universal translation layer that each UI system will speak and then create libraries for translating *to* the unitrans layer and libs for translating *from* the unitrans layer. This might be slow tho...

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by Solo:
Hey, why *not* make a standard UI layer... we just make a universal translation layer that each UI system will speak and then create libraries for translating *to* the unitrans layer and libs for translating *from* the unitrans layer. This might be slow tho...
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yah, what he said.  I can handle slow, I've dealt with it in OSX for a long time.  And X86 is faster than Mac and gets faster more quickly than just about anything else.  Hell, by the time something like this is finished we will have like 5GHz cpu's

solo:
that would be something that would send linux straight into the desktop market. everything would be completely consistent! anyone else seriously considering this? i am. ill help with the universal layer and the kde layers!

Calum:
why not contribute to GNOME as the standard? i think kde will drag linux down if it is allowed to stay being the standard. it is too windows-like (complete with terminal ugliness and bugs/crashes)

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