[froh]

I wonder how that parallel universe would have looked like where the gnome part of Xamarin inside Novell would have partied with the kde guys at SUSE towards shared components.

the only reason kde wasn't dead right there was the solid kde market share in corporate linux gui deployments at the time. and then came the Novell Microsoft (Balmer days) deal, "look, Linux desktop doesn't make any sense...".

Linux desktops were doing amazingly well in "kiosk" deployments, hundreds and thousands of very similar centrally managed workplaces. think selling tickets, showing time tables, atms, think sears or the likes (it was those days)

but I get astray

how would a universe look like where Xamarin and SUSE had had the phantasy to see gnome and kde synergize instead of cage fight?

sigh, a woman may dram...