Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:16:20 -0500
From: "Greg S. Hayes" <sdc@choice.net>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Clarifing My Message to the GNOME list

	My message to the Gnome list was by no means an attempt to toss away
all of the work that Gnome has accomplished, but rather to encourage a
merger between the projects by taking the one that is currently stable
and integrating the ideas behind Gnome into it. So far, because of the
work of developers out there, KDE WILL have themes, tight clean CORBA
integration of components (which has existed for some time, examine
KOffice for example), and it will be more compatible with other window
managers (by working to unify the set of WM hints used by both
projects). Other problems that have been complained about, such as
programing language for example, ARE being worked on by continuing
development in QtC. Keep your eyes open for these features after the
release of KDE 1.1 and Qt 2. The REAL block in the path of KDE was the
Qt license, that problem has been resolved and now KDE will definitely
play an integral role in the development of linux in the future. As I
have stated above it is clear to see the line between the benefits of
one over the other are blurring and becoming nonexistent.
	I feel it is important to stress these issues to deal with alot of the
hate mail I have received (which is generally from Gnome "users" who
don't fully understand the intent of my letter) I am not an advocate of
evil; I am a Linux user and developer who wants to see the quickest path
to facing the true enemy, Microsoft. :) So let's stop these internal
struggles and work to bring Gnome and KDE together, there are plenty of
things about both projects that NEED to be shared not fought over.

Greg Hayes