Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:18:25 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Can't X be elemenated? |
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Hi!
> >>different toolkits exist becouse people are solving different problems. > >>which set of people do you propose telling that their desires don't > >>matter? > > > > > >Well, qt and gtk solve pretty much same problem, > >their existence seems like historical accident to me. > > Hmm. World (also in linux kernel) is not so efficient! > There are more tools for same task/problem. Maybe in the long run only one > tools per problem will survive, but the diversity is good, also at cost of > the duplicate work.
It is not where you have competing interfaces.
> Do you want only one distribution for user, one for small companies, one > for schools,...? Do you want only one web server implementation? Only one > filesystem per task (only one journaling FS)? > Are they all "historical accident"?
Well, I'm pretty glad there's only one glibc, and only one http protocol, and only one X protocol. And it would be way better if there was just one toolkit commonly used on Linux. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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