From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:3092f6.57316c{at}harborwebs.com...

> But others like to talk to the metal so.....then your app comes with it's
own
> reqs i.e. they all need an underlying drawing thing (e.g. X) but then do
it for
> KDE then you req KDE/QT, do it for GNOME then you need  etc.etc.etc.

Yes but that's what I'm saying, as the popular distribs standardize on one
GUI then the others will either have to include that basic functionality or
GUI apps may not work on them. At some point it will happen.

Geo.

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