![]() ![]() Gnome started moving a lot of its infrastructure into GTK with 2.x and I think they should continue doing this. ![]() Gnome as a development environment? Hell, NO!. The idea behind Gnome needs to be dumped. Besides, if anyone in the OSS world really wanted to cast of the iron chains of windows, why not cast off the windows? Maybe it’ll stick around longer in the software/hardware developer world for a bit longer than the end-user world, but one way or another somethings gotta give. Let’s get serious people, the desktop metaphor probably only has a few good years left, a decade if we’re lucky. Is it only apparent to me that each major release in the GNOME/KDE sphere is followed by flare-ups of support which segue into many fair-weather users losing their ( by definition, weak ) faith in the projects and decrying their downfall, only to have it the whole process start again with the next major release? I suppose in recent years GNOME has helped stymie this by doing point releases every six months so the flare-ups aren’t as big as they used to be.Īs a rookie OSS user a decade ago I seem to remember switching desktops after every major release, thinking to myself, “this is so much better than that old GNOME/KDE crap.” That’s something about which people should think about. He wrote about Bluethoot…) into Gnome itself but it’s amazing how someone, which is part of a project which is not that tiny nor unsuccessfull, can have such bad feeling about his tasks and the project itself. I don’t know how much Edd is involved (and/or important. Plus, many contributors could just disappear after a while and so a very few developers will face an huge growth of their responsibilities. However, when you do that for free, you start fights, maybe your own life is a mess and, most of all fun is over (Edd’s words), being committed starts getting very hard and sometimes you just can’t stand anymore. If you get paid, you will hardly go away unless you have other nice big opportunity. Maybe because you feel productive, maybe because you like that project so much, maybe because you think that current developers are getting all that wrong or whatever. You can start contributing to a project for various reasons. However, let’s not forget another basic thing: plain money. That’s just a suicide for a project but I’ve seen so many examples like that. They think no-one of them will actually loose something because they can retain codebase and start over. The openness of sw licenses usually encourages people to think that they can fight and, eventually, split. Python is a choice we can all live with, I have yet to hear an reason why Python *shouldn’t* be used. Personally, I think anything (of those choices) but Python is a recipe for disaster, and GNOME will cease to be useful for me (I run it on many machines with less than 256MB of RAM and sub-1GHz CPUs) at the point that major apps are implemented in Mono/Java. I mean, I think its nice that there is an open source implementation of C#/.Net, but what is it really offering in real terms? If you want a Java environment, the entire desktop framework should just be written in Java – its retarded to have a huge framework (GNOME) which you then have to load an entire other framework (JVM+Class Library) on top of just to call the functions in the first framework as a scripting environment.Īnd Mono is the same thing, only written such that it is incompatible with Java syntax because of Microsoft’s arrogance and greed. Java sucks in terms of performance, because it comprises such an enormous class library – which essentially re-implements the bulk of glib and gtk+. Not only this, but the simple ‘performance and architecture’ arguments against Mono and Java remain. I mean, i’m no Python fan, I’ve used Perl so long that anything else just seems wrong, but both Java and Mono are so irrevocaably tied to corporate parents and the partisan battles that are unavoidable given this, that they should both be rejected in favour of an open standard, as defined by a respected leader (Guido van Rossum) and the wide community that has sprung up around Python. Does anybody really have a problem with using Python as a scripting language? ![]()
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