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Timothy Ney Hired As Gnome Foundation Director

Posted by Hemos on from the great-news-for-gnome dept.

Leslie Proctor writes: "The GNOME Foundation announced today that they have hired Timothy Ney as Executive Director. Tim is well known in the Free software community for his work with the FSF. More details at www.gnome.org." The actual press release is online, as well as Gnome news. Having worked/talked with Tim before, this is great news for The Gnome Foundation -- Tim's an incredible guy.

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  1. with any luck... by Satai · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...this discussion won't degenerate into millions of posts yelling "Tim Ney! TIM NEY!!"

  2. Nice to see growth for a change by moniker_21 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Between Covad, Loki, and god knows who else having financial trouble, it's really nice to see a company going in the right direction and hiring people. Especially in an area where Linux has been labeled as lacking, namely in the GUI department. I can't wait to see what GNOME has in store next. Good luck and congrats Tim!

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  3. Wow by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 2
    More than 500 computer developers, including over 100 full-time, paid developers, contribute their time and effort to the project.

    What a cool statistic! Now I'm really interested to see this statistic for KDE. Somehow I get the impression that the number of paid KDE developers is smaller than 100.

    How is it that KDE is keeping up with them then? (surpassing, even, IMHO) Greater support from non-paid developers? Perhaps I am wrong about the number of paid KDE developers.

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    1. Re:Wow by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 2

      IMO it is in apps department where GNOME has forged a large and growing lead.

      That should change after KDE 3 is released, since the API will remain stable (binary-compatible even!) for some time, allowing an application base to build up. I think it was the big change from KDE 1 to KDE 2 that made KDE fall behind in the apps department, and GNOME will likely experience a similar phenomenon with its next major release, probably occurring within KDE 3's lifetime.

      Besides, I like Konqueror is better than Nautilus, and KOffice 1.1 is looking good (the 1.0 release was a total joke, but so much has changed since then, just try it!). Aethra is coming along well in the "Giant E-mail/PIM monstrosity" department. Also, I think aRts contains much of the functionality that is in GStreamer (but I could be mistaken). Even if GStreamer is better, it is hardly a GNOME-specific project and could be adopted as part of KDE's multimedia system.

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    2. Re:Wow by scrytch · · Score: 2

      > How is it that KDE is keeping up with them then?

      quality over quantity perhaps?

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    3. Re:Wow by bero-rh · · Score: 2
      apps where GNOME has a big edge: the office apps (Gnumeric, Abiword, OpenOffice, Evolution, Gnucash) also The Gimp, Nautilus, Gstreamer, Galeon and many more

      Have you taken a look at KDE recently?

      KSpread and KWord are about on par with Gnumeric and Abiword. OpenOffice is not a part of gnome and nowhere near usable yet.
      For Evolution, KDE has Aethera, which isn't there yet, but catching up quickly.
      For Nautilus and Galeon, there's Konqueror - which you like better is mostly a matter of taste.
      Gimp is really ahead for people who can figure out how it works (and that's all but easy) - for others, Krayon (which isn't intended as a gimp replacement - more as something easy to use and still powerful) is better.

      Off the top of my head, here's other things where KDE is ahead:
      • API
      • Kontour (formerly KIllustrator)
      • KPresenter
      • KChart
      • Kivio
      • aRts (multimedia stuff)
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    4. Re:Wow by SmileyBen · · Score: 2

      So do you think it is better to start writing from scratch, rather than Gnomising or KDEifying applications? I know that's not what you mean, but surely you can't complain that this is an unfair comparison because Gnome builds on the existing free software codebase, whereas KDE goes their own way?

    5. Re:Wow by SmileyBen · · Score: 2

      Many would think it was proof that KDE is difficult for effectively reusing old code, whereas Gnome is not. Of course you can use this as proof that Gnome is doing well.

  4. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE... by gik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm having trouble believing that this Gnome-related story wasn't ended with a "Personally, I use Konqueror..." or "...even though KDE does blah blah....".

    I think this is a first, ladies and gentlemen.

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  5. Re:you're not entirerly correct by bero-rh · · Score: 2

    Umm... Abiword is not OpenOffice. OpenOffice is
    the former Staroffice. I mentioned Abiword (which
    I agree is a great app) in a completely separate
    context.

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  6. Re:Hope he boosts Gnome... by tjwhaynes · · Score: 2

    BTW, any news on Nautilus? Although it's very bloated, I like that thing. Don't let it fade...

    Seeing that God^H^H^HAlan Cox made some performance observations on one of the nautilus mailing lists (based on a almost complete lack of any caching for often-used fonts and file contents), I think you'll see the performance take a big leap when 1.0.5 comes out - there is still a fair amount of activity on the Nautilus code base.

    Cheers,

    Toby Haynes

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