[Foss-cafe] Novell's new desktop

[dep]

quoth Tink:

| I don't know how many Gnome people we already have managed to
| persuade to subscribe but it would be interesting to hear opinions
| about the pro and cons of such an integrated desktop.

okay, i'll bite (and probably get bitten). this could be very good or 
very bad or simply as ho-hum as them shipping both desktops with the 
announcement that apps from one can be run under the other.

what would make it really positive would be adoption of some standards 
such as -- here i go again -- common email addressbook formats and 
common email index formats. a clipboard that actually works in an 
actual useful fashion. (for instance, among the things that 
gecko/mozilla/nvu has retained is a complete disconnect from all known 
clipboards; one of the things that makes a clipboard useful is being 
able to paste in a complicated url.)

it would be supremely cool to be able to switch around among email apps 
the way one can among word processors or html editors, without each one 
corrupting the entire proceedings for every other one. this would be 
good not just for a common desktop but for the adoption of desktop 
linux in general.
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dep

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