GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform Beta

ambrosius27 writes: "To quote from Jeff Waugh's announcement: "The API frozen Developer Platform Beta, 'Everyone's Excited and Confused', is ready for your porting pleasure!" You can find the full announcement on Gnotices. The GNOME developers have been hard at work. Feel free to download, create/port applications, and, most of all, send in nicely detailed bug reports!"

Comments

In relation to Ximian Gnome

[Glenn2372]

Okay, this is coming from a lesser-experience Linux user so don't flame me TOO hard, but how does this tie (if at all) with Ximian's version of Gnome?

I'm really liking Evolution, and while their desktop is pretty, it seems bare in comparision to KDE's solution. To be able to port more stuff over to Gnome (and Ximian's GNOME), would be wonderful in my eyes.

Now, granted, I may be completely confused and these don't mix at all, so in that case, just tell me to shut up and I'll go crawl back in my hole.

Re:Another poor release

[ambrosius27]

um...it's a DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM release, i.e. we're talking about the libraries upon which the desktop environment is built. In a few weeks, after they've killed lots of the bugs hiding in the libraries and after the developers have had more time to port the key desktop applications, then the DESKTOP beta will roll out too. Some of the applications, like Abiword, may not be ported by the time GNOME 2.0 goes gold; however, all GNOME 1.4 applications will work great in the GNOME 2.0 desktop until the apps have been ported. In the meantime, the apps just won't be taking advantage of the goodies in the GNOME 2.0 libraries, that's all. So, relax! The future looks rosy. :-)

Wheel reinvention

[DGolden]

Question - has there been any progress made on bringing the respective component models of KDE and GNOME any closer together? It'd be nice to be able to embed a Bonobo component in a KParts document, perhaps itself embedded in a StarOffice or even Mozilla framework. How fundamentally different are KParts/DCOP, Bonobo/CORBA, StarOffice/UNO, Mozilla/XPCOM, Java/JavaBeans, Microsoft OLE/COM, (probably Xt belongs in this list too...), will there ever be any hope of unifying them a bit better ???