hey, remember the platform?

[Wichmann, Mats D]

>it's been a while since the last missive about this.  here's 
>some misguided nonsense I said last time around, and possibly 
>equally misguided current opinion:
>
>> However, I also got from xdc that the package set under 
>consideration for
>> the platform is: fontconfig, gstreamer, dbus, hal, cairo, 
>maybe pkgconfig. 
>
>fontconfig and pkgconfig still sound like good ideas.

>  and cairo isn't being used in KDE, so it's 
>right out of any list of de-facto adopted code.

Just curious what would change your view of this (not
questioning it, it still seems too early to me as well).
Is "in KDE" always a requirement?  I'm hearing a lot of
pretty key apps starting to use cairo, including 
OpenOffice and Firefox - it's not mainstream for either
AFAIK.  Does something like that end up tipping the
balance?