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Looking Ahead at GNOME 2
Able writes "This is a good article that will teach you how to use the new and improved libraries available with GNOME 2 so that you can write your own Nautilus view, and panel applets. It also provides you with the understanding to compile a few sample GTK+ 2 programs that will give you a good understanding of GTK+ 2's many improvements over GTK+ 1."
Ok, thats nice, it looks good, umm. . . .
:) ) and Unicode text support is useful.
/PER DAY/. Obviously easy /seamless/ multicultural support is a nice idea, implement/advertise it!
If the Linux crowd wants to get inroads into the main stream windows user base then they need to start promoting or developing (case depending of course, if it already exists, PROMOTE IT) some key features.
Generic HID drivers. Right now I can plug damn nearly anything with buttons and pad(s) on it into my win2k boxen and it will run. How is somebody to know if Linux does this? Hardly something that is discussed often.
---I should be able to plug a control pad in and it should work no fuss no muss. Oh yah, and a little button should make it take over my house, let the analog keys work, and so forth.
If I get a USB hub and start jacking mice into it left and right, what would happen? Will they work with no error, will another mouse pointer just appear on my screen or will each mouse control the same cursor? Even better, can I choose which? Easily? Can programs choose which? 4 player breakout games exist for Windows, simply shove more mice on the computer.
----Thats UI, easy to control, as many devices as I want plugged in all at once.
Concentrate on making features usable and advertising them. Sure AA text may be nice (really nice in some cases.
How easy is it to install additional fonts? Can users just click "install Japanese font pack" from a font pack listing someplace and have the GUI go online and download said fonts without a hitch? People working in multi-cultural enviroments want to know that sorta stuff, I'm typing this from a library computer that typicaly has 2-3 new language packs installed on it
Sure this is a developer pack, but when stuff is easy for the developer it is (should be) easy for the user.
Looking nice is good, working smooth is better.
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The coolist things about GTK are #1 - It's Free (Speach) and #2 It's cross platform (Unix, Max and Win32)
yeah, those are the coolest things about it. i prefer software whose coolest features are features, not licensing and 8-way compatibility.
call me a troll i guess...