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Submitted by zack rusin on Mon, 04/05/2004 - 16:20

So I'll be talking on GUADEC this year. I found out just yesterday because Michael has sent the notification to a wrong address (thanks Glynn for forwarding it to me). The abstract is available at http://www.automatix.de/~zack/guadec_abstract.pdf. I think it's going to be very interesting. I'll be discussing currently available standards and I'll be talking about ones which we still have to work on. IPC and configuration frameworks will be a big portion of the presentation.

I've been talking a bit to Ian McKellar from the GNOME fame about KHTML. Ian's got a large portion of KWQ ported to GTK+. Finishing it would make KHTML run natively on GNOME. Hopefully he'll get his CVS working soon so that we can get it done before GUADEC.

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martin galpin's picture

Movements...

Submitted by martin galpin on Mon, 04/05/2004 - 22:16.

Has the project officially chosen to support Open Source rather than Free Software now? I've noticed the change on the homepage, and it worries me slightly.

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rich's picture

Which project?

Submitted by rich on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 13:32.

Which project do you mean? KDE?

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martin galpin's picture

...I do

Submitted by martin galpin on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 14:35.

...I do

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rich's picture

Then the answer is some do some don't

Submitted by rich on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 14:59.

Basically there is no single position on this. I myself am much more of the Open Source point of view than the Free Software point of view, some people agree with me, some do not.

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datschge's picture

Was just changed

Submitted by datschge on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 14:46.

Be happy

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martin galpin's picture

I'm glad to see that.

Submitted by martin galpin on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 18:35.

I strongly believe it's important that we continue to use ``Free Software" as KDE makes it way further onto the desktop. I feel we have a duty to keep emphasis on freedom.

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rich's picture

I'm not sure it's a case of continuing

Submitted by rich on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 20:15.

I'm not sure it's a case of continuing to use the term 'Free Software' - KDE has always had more of an open source ethos IMHO. In fact the more fundamentalist 'free software' people have tended to treat us pretty badly. Like many other KDE developers, I don't care that much (which is probably one of the reasons they dislike us).

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datschge's picture

Neat

Submitted by datschge on Mon, 04/05/2004 - 19:57.

Seeing KHTML being used on one more platform will be nice. =)

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smt's picture

Yeah

Submitted by smt on Tue, 04/06/2004 - 00:05.

I'm especially interested on khtml running in gtk/windows.. would help a lot of web developers who want to target khtml but don't have access to linux or OSX.

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...

Submitted by luke chatburn on Mon, 04/05/2004 - 23:54.

What, aside from the one platform of KDE (Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.) and OSX? Smiling

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