SuSE / Novell, KDE / GNOME, gtk+ / qt, ximian / trolltech
For those of you who care, there's currently chaos in the community. SuSE users are grumbling about Novell's decision to make Ximian's users interface the "default" desktop.
Novell will continue to ship *both* GNOME and KDE, but instead of doing what it has done since "obtaining" SuSE and Ximian, it will now make GNOME the default desktop.
Good news for me. Not so good news for my friends who develop QT applications that run on the KDE desktop.
I think this stresses how important cooperation in the Free Desktop project is. You can read more about this project, started by a Red Hat developer, Havoc "hp" Pennington at the following URL:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/
I have been writing GTK+ applications since 2000 and have many times wished that KDE and GNOME tools functioned more similarly or at least inter-operated more smoothly.
Perhaps the QT documentation should be presented in a style that gtk+ developers are familiar with. We keep our API documentation here:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/
Where does the QT API documentation reside?
From this article:
Contrary to what was expected from recent Novell announcements, Novell executives are apparently slicing deeply into the Linux heart of the company. Jobs and resources are actually being slashed in several areas previously dubbed by Novell management as "key component parts of Novell's Linux developments": staffers working on Mono, Hula, Evolution and Desktop Strategy are getting the sack.
Eep! I think that's a couple of my friends losing their jobs.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005111002326OPSSNV
One of my friends at Novell in the group in question tells me "that story is both wrong and old news." So I'm not concerned.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-09-15-009-26-OP-GN-KE
I run... ahem...
Ubuntu GNU/Linux with GNOME on an IBM T42 Thinkpad.
Based on the recent discussions fueled by Linus Torvalds, I look forward to the coming of GNU's multi-server operating system, HURD, which runs on the GNU project's Mach microkernel.
Anyone have any first-hand familiarity with HURD or Mach?
Novell will continue to ship *both* GNOME and KDE, but instead of doing what it has done since "obtaining" SuSE and Ximian, it will now make GNOME the default desktop.
Good news for me. Not so good news for my friends who develop QT applications that run on the KDE desktop.
I think this stresses how important cooperation in the Free Desktop project is. You can read more about this project, started by a Red Hat developer, Havoc "hp" Pennington at the following URL:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/
I have been writing GTK+ applications since 2000 and have many times wished that KDE and GNOME tools functioned more similarly or at least inter-operated more smoothly.
Perhaps the QT documentation should be presented in a style that gtk+ developers are familiar with. We keep our API documentation here:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/
Where does the QT API documentation reside?
From this article:
Contrary to what was expected from recent Novell announcements, Novell executives are apparently slicing deeply into the Linux heart of the company. Jobs and resources are actually being slashed in several areas previously dubbed by Novell management as "key component parts of Novell's Linux developments": staffers working on Mono, Hula, Evolution and Desktop Strategy are getting the sack.
Eep! I think that's a couple of my friends losing their jobs.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005111002326OPSSNV
One of my friends at Novell in the group in question tells me "that story is both wrong and old news." So I'm not concerned.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-09-15-009-26-OP-GN-KE
I run... ahem...
Ubuntu GNU/Linux with GNOME on an IBM T42 Thinkpad.
Based on the recent discussions fueled by Linus Torvalds, I look forward to the coming of GNU's multi-server operating system, HURD, which runs on the GNU project's Mach microkernel.
Anyone have any first-hand familiarity with HURD or Mach?