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A quick one

I just had to chip in quickly on pfremy's crockery all over.

Here are a few points :

You specifically mention Nautilus 1.0 without mentioning that this is the OLD Nautilus developed by Eazel. All your points are ONLY valid about the OLD Nautilus, and even then they're skewed at best.

Why don't we compare KDE1 or KDE2 Konqueror with the Nautilus you bash ?

Yes, you are right that the original Nautilus 1.0 developers didn't put integration with the rest of GNOME high on their priority list. That is because Eazel was foremost a COMPANY trying to make MONEY on Eazel services served by Nautilus. Man, you really are comparing apples and oranges here.

You say "it is not possible to reuse parts of it". Well, ha ha ;) All code that is reusable has been abstracted out into other libraries which now are used throughout Gnome. There will ALWAYS be code in an application that is not reusable, otherwise you would have a lot of exactly similar apps by definition. So you're wrong.

You say "it is not possible to integrate external code". Well, ha ha ;) Guess what I've been doing this weekend ? nautilus-media is an example of external code that integrates into nautilus nicely. You should have picked another application to try to bash on integration issues, because Nautilus is a really good example on how to do integration nicely.

I'm afraid the one who doesn't get the Free Software spirit is you. I say this without any intention of bashing either you or KDE. As hadess points out, the code does the real talking.

KDE is a great effort, it just not fits my needs. Gnome is too, but it does fits my need. You do both KDE and Gnome a disservice by trying to instigate some sort of fight based on very skewed assumptions and giving a lot of reasons that are easily disproved. Code talks, and my code disproved your point.

By trying to throw fire on this fabled desktop war, you don't get the free software spirit a lot more than others. Please stop putting red blushes on KDE developers' cheeks. They write code, as we do for Gnome, and they have the right to criticize software.

You are not even at the stage where you can criticize Gnome as a user since you obviously didn't even try to remain objective about this.

I wanted to add a quote from the band I'm going to see play tonight : No one's interested in something you didn't do.

A quick one I just had to chip in quickly on pfremy's crockery all over. Here are a few points : You specifically mention Nautilus 1.0 without mentioning that this...