Slashdot comments are even dumber than usual when discussing coordinated security updates. I guess I’d expect that if they know nothing else, at least many Slashdot posters work in IT and understand security patches! For those who don’t know: in most cases, a not-yet-public security flaw has a public announcement date coordinated among all the […]
Alex Graveley links to subtext, I think this thing looks awesome. A perfect place to experiment with it would be something like GNOME panel applets, Apple Dashboard, or Second Life objects. All these are limited programming domains where making programming easy would be high-value. I guess any sort of plugin/extension system might be a good […]
Better judgment > /dev/null Sorry to see this come up again, but I guess it will be a hot topic at GUADEC, so I may as well lay out the current status as I see it. (Summary: not much has changed…) It won’t show on Planet GNOME, so here is Mark Wielaard following up on […]
Mikael, I would have said exactly the opposite. You can build all the platform you want and nobody is going to care. What they care about is apps. Good apps will drag along the worst platform imaginable. In fact, the major apps mostly have lame custom cross-platform toolkits as their platform, and nobody cares. GTK+ […]
Which is worse: Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father or Tommy Lee Jones stars as a Texas Ranger who must protect a group of 5 cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder? I think The Pacifier is victorious […]
I think some people were confused about what I meant by “structural” changes. I’m talking about things on the scale of whether apps involve windows, dialogs, and menus (and thus whether there’s a window manager, and which widgets are found in the GUI toolkit). Another example might be removing files from the user model (including […]
Ah geez, again I foolishly fail to remember that phrasing things a certain way results in Slashdot articles which inevitably have misleading headlines and summaries. For the record, my point is not that we should do a GNOME 3 (especially right now), and it definitely isn’t that I personally intend to do a GNOME 3. […]
Adding to my previous post a bit, regarding the 6‑month cycle: I don’t think going 6 to 9 months is at all useful for enabling GNOME 3. GNOME 3 is a bigger effort than that. We should pick the release cycle to benefit GNOME 2, not GNOME 3. And I think GNOME 2 is running […]
My take on the GNOME 3 discussion is that we have multiple goals at the moment which are truly in conflict. On the one hand, we have the fairly traditional desktop of today, with some growing userbase, and it’s important not to break it. Most of the employed-to-work-on-GNOME developers are focused on this. On the […]
Aaron, there is no standards committee or standards body at freedesktop.org. freedesktop.org right now is the equivalent of Sourceforge, essentially, except that projects have to be desktop-related. I fully agree with outreach and that is what the successful projects have done. e.g. for fontconfig, Keith Packard went and talked to GTK+, Qt, Mozilla and even […]