PCBSD - I'm fairly impressed

[piratePenguin]

the same applies to drag and drop

Nope it doesn't:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards

[piratePenguin]

That's what exactly what I meant, the same applies to package management.

I think the problem is that things like package management, DDE and desktops weren't part of the origional POSIX standard, they came along afterwards.

Package management won't ever be standardized, at least I hope so. The reason there are so many packaging formats (RPM, autopackage, dep, Slackware tarballs (the simplest of all) etc...) is that different people found different perfect ways to do the job of a packaging format. Same goes for everything else, except things like clipboarding and drag and drop don't usually have many differences, so they're easy to standardize without leaving anything out.

EDIT: stuff like preferred applications don't usually differ much either, which is why I hope in a while KDE and GNOME and XFCE, plus more, ask for the preferred browser/mail client/terminal from the same places.

[Aloone_Jonez]

It's a start a I suppose and I'm glad they're slowly working towards desktop standardisation and I hope that one day the same will apply to OLE and package management etc.

[toadlife]

Yeah when I first tried linux in 1997 (Slackware 96 I beleive), I loaded up XFree86, fucked around for hours trying to get my damn mouse to work, fucked around for more hours trying to get my monitors resolution right, fucked around even more hours trying to get an good window manager working (fvwm95), fucked around for more hours getting my dialup working, installed an email client and web browser and some other apps like emacs - only to find that copying a pasting didn't work accross *any* of the programs I installed.

But in the last few years, I've never seen it not work.

[inane]

I, personally, have seen an issue between Kopete and Konqueror when it came to cut and pasting and having someone recieve said paste on their cellphones... I haven't had this problem with Gnome using Epiphany and Gaim. I think Gnome probably uses a more standardized ascii key format... as anything I would type in Kopete could be read by the cell phone user but not the paste. I also find that GTK is better when it comes to drag and drop operations.