From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 17 7:56: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2CB1517A for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12AEVa-000GR0-00; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:55:58 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13274; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:55:58 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:55:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk Cc: James A Wilde , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which X-window to choose? In-Reply-To: <00256866.00426B86.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote: >Regarding standards, KDE has adopted it's own 'standard' known as >KOM/OpenParts (I think). Gnome uses an existing standard but it's a >'commercial style' one which I dont like. I compare it to Microsoft DCOM >which is foul and should be burned at the stake :o) I thought CORBA was supposedly a good idea for Gnome? Open and flexible, and standardized as well? Without standards, you run the risk of (a) several incompatible standards (like instant messengers) or one company holding all the cards (like M$) -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message