Gnome 1.1.4 Released

sheldie wrote to us to say that those wild and wacky Gnome guys have released Gnome-core/gnome-applets 1.1.4. As we've said before, they are currently in a feature-freeze, working towards 1.2. Of course, I do think that the best part of 1.1.4 is the name: "Ponies for Sale!" does a great job of drawing it all together. *grin*

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NY Times article about Eazel & GNOME 2.0

[shitface]

HERE

The article explains that a bunch of old Apple/Mac programmers are more or less incharge of interface for GNOME 2.0 (as far as the file manager and back processes of the file manager) and that HelixCode is incharge of the internal "plumbing." It also said that HelixCode is really looking to put together a office suite.

Re:NY Times article about Eazel & GNOME 2.0

[steintr]

While I don't think the characterization of Eazel as being responsible for the future GNOME UI is entirely correct (they're designing the file manager, which is a big component, but not all of the UI), the article never implied that Helix was responsible for all the "plumbing." It said that the "Gnome group" would work on that, which is, of course, a truism (the GNOME team will work on all of GNOME not being done by someone else).

To save people the link-clicking, "...the Ezel team has taken responsibility for the appearance--- the 'look and feel' of the program that serves as the control panel for the Linux operating system--- while the Gnome group will concentrate on the internal plumbing."

HelixCode is first referred to four paragraphs later as working on productivity applications, not infrastructure. (Although the individual hackers working at Helix are still responsible for much of gnome-libs, gnome-core, etc.)