Re:Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them a...
by mappu on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:37PM
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> And Id throw a boat load of money at defining a stable DE framework that resolved the kde gnome schism once and for all.
Even with a boatload of money, how would you go about this?
Write a shim lowest-common-demoninator API that can target both (like wxwidgets)?
Theme them to look like each other (like Qtcurve)?
Extract more and more individual concepts that can be collaborated on and shared (like fd.o / xdg-shell)?
I think the key problem is the proliferation of incompatible object extensions to C (C++ vs GObject and also Objective C). Porting GObject to C++ (like Gtkmm) is the most developed direction, the alternative of porting Qt to C/GObject (make all GObjects implement QObject or vice versa?) has not even been tried AFAICT.
Even with a boatload of money, how would you go about this?
Write a shim lowest-common-demoninator API that can target both (like wxwidgets)?
Theme them to look like each other (like Qtcurve)?
Extract more and more individual concepts that can be collaborated on and shared (like fd.o / xdg-shell)?
I think the key problem is the proliferation of incompatible object extensions to C (C++ vs GObject and also Objective C). Porting GObject to C++ (like Gtkmm) is the most developed direction, the alternative of porting Qt to C/GObject (make all GObjects implement QObject or vice versa?) has not even been tried AFAICT.