From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262301AbTJGMSm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:18:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262303AbTJGMSm (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:18:42 -0400 Received: from gprs145-17.eurotel.cz ([160.218.145.17]:6528 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262301AbTJGMSl (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:18:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:18:25 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" Cc: David Lang , Krishna Akella , Paul Jakma , kartikey bhatt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated? Message-ID: <20031007121825.GA323@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20031007040449.GM205@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <3F82780C.8080408@pixelized.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F82780C.8080408@pixelized.ch> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?]