Re: Input methods (Emacs and others), plain X [was: Japanese input in Linux environment]

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:40:46PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> > My significant one is a big GNU/Linux fan and
> > uses MATE. Choice is good :)

[...]

> But I think you downgraded the discussion from
> X, Gnome, and KDE. In a book I read that RMS
> (rms) was involved. Gnome was to be for the
> masses and KDE for the techno-druids. This is
> all I remember and I don't remember the name of
> the book either. It must have been good, but
> I lost it somehow.

It's slightly different. The initial main impetus behind
GNOME was that the widget toolkit behind KDE, Qt, wasn't
Free at the time -- something which has changed long, long
time ago.

Then, of course, you had different tribes and what not. I
think that would be a really thrilling case study for an
anthropologist. Perhaps we can learn something from it.

> Still the purpose of the DEs isn't clear to me [...]

You've got to look into one to understand that, and be
it that, like me, you support it for someone else.

> Still we haven't touched upon Wayland, Mir,
> or Unity.

Different things.

But we're far, far off-topic by now. If no one complains
I propose to stop this thread or to take it off-list.

Cheers
- -- t
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