New (08/14/2003) Why Keith Packard's X11 fork has gone silent. More disturbing news on the KDE/Gnome front. Some of you may have noticed that there has been very little public technical discussion about the X11 fork Keith Packard has been doing called XWin lately. In the past couple months they've all been pretty much silent. Wondering why?
Well, I have been told by someone close to the project that it's because it's been hijacked by Gnome developers and they don't want to debate integrating Gnome technologies. Particularly they want to integrate things like GConf and Glib into the X server without having to discuss it. So they are no longer talking about what they are doing on the mailing lists or website forums. If XWin is a success because of things like Xr and they are able to sneak things other things like GConf in without debate or public discussion it would be a huge win for them.
This is why all the public forums are silent: It's not that they are not doing anything - it's that they don't want to tell people about it ;-)
I can't confirm or deny this, but have been told the above information by someone both very visible and well-known in the Linux community and close to Red Hat. He said the person leading this effort is Havoc, not Keith Packard, so Keith is not to blame.
He also stated that in response to KDE getting positive coverage due to it's usability both RedHat and Sun are actively lobbying their customers against KDE. Not only this, but there have been accusations from people close to both companies that they are feeding anti-KDE articles to news sites from supposedly "neutral" sources. This is not suprising for RedHat, but I rather thought Sun learned from their desktop choice mistake before.
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