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Where to head Gnome development

Where to head Gnome development

Posted Jul 10, 2008 9:58 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
Parent article: Questions and answers with Stormy Peters

Gnome has a _huge_ opportunity in the embedded world, where companies do not want to use Qt,
now under control of Nokia, a potential competitor. That and the fact tha Qt is either GPL or
commercial license, whereas GTK+ and friends are LGPL.

I really think the Gnome devs should focus on making easily embeddable/reusable libs and apps
(which can only help making them faster on big desktops), and I am sure they'll be running on
most EEEs and Netbooks of this world by 2010. They might actually make 10x10 in the end :-)


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Where to head Gnome development

Posted Jul 18, 2008 9:48 UTC (Fri) by bkor (guest, #27950) [Link]

Please contact Stormy with the suggestions/wishes you have. At GUADEC the asked loads of devs
about their wishes to get a good idea on where improvments can be made. I presume she'd love
more input.

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