GTK+ 2.8.0 released [LWN.net]

GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 15, 2005 12:49 UTC (Mon) by Arker (guest, #14205)
In reply to: GTK+ 2.8.0 released by bojan
Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released

And GNOME is supposed to be the GNU Network Object Model Environment.

Explicitly called into being as part of the GNU/OS.

And explicitly hell-bent, to judge from your post (and I'll say now it's not at all clear you can speak for the project here, but the project has made decisions in the past very consistent with what you're saying, so it fits) on alienating anyone that happens to like the keystrokes, conventions, and working models of the GNU/OS as it existed before GNOME. We aren't wanted or needed in your world, obviously.

Doesn't make much sense to me. Perhaps if that is really the official policy of the project, it should change its name?

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GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 15, 2005 14:14 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link]

GNU's Not UNIX. :P

GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 15, 2005 19:57 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Let me assure you, I cannot speak for the project at all as I haven't written a single line of Gnome code. So, all the comments are my own personal views and not those of the Gnome Foundation.

I think you are reading too much into this. I used Gnome since 1.x and when things started changing (i.e. being simplified), I protested that I miss this or that. The truth is that I don't. I was just used to doing things that way and they are just fine they way they are now.

I was just telling Ross that he's completely free to feel the way he does. It is officially OK. I personally got over it, some people can't because they probably really need those things, which is OK too. But, direction of GTK is dictated by GTK developers, many of which are Gnome folks these days. Nothing "hell-bent" about that, just reality.