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IBM (and others) 'backing' GTKIBM (and others) 'backing' GTKPosted Oct 31, 2004 17:16 UTC (Sun) by louie (subscriber, #3285)In reply to: IBM backing GTK by Algol Parent article: KDE and the Linux Journal 2004 Readers' Choice Awards (KDE.News)
IBM is indeed on the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board and a contributor to the foundation. But their main developmental focus at the moment is really the eclipse platform- which uses GTK, but isn't particularly gnome-integrated, unfortunately. The record suggests that gtk is the linux target for the most important third-party linux ISVs (IBM with eclipse, Open Office with their Q Document, Real with Helix, Mozilla Foundation, others I'm not yet at liberty to speak about) but none of these partners (except maybe Real) have really gone the distance yet to integrate actively. By which I mean they've used gtk as their platform, but have not attempted to integrate with the GNOME HIG, use gconf, or other such steps. So... it is premature to say that GTK/GNOME have definitely won in the critical third-party developer wars, but we can see some trends in that direction that GNOME needs to take advantage of in order to reach its goals.
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