Re: Can't X be elemenated?

Pavel Machek
2003-10-07T12:18:42Z

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
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