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Sun Increases Commitment to GNOME

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-lot-of-commitment dept.

Ur@eus writes "Mark McLoughlin of Sun mailed the gnome-hackers mailing-list today announcing the deal between Sun, Ximian and Wipro. The deal means that Wipro will assign up to 50 people to work on GNOME including hackers, QA people, documenters and more. These hackers come in addition to the Sun hackers already working on GNOME at their Desktop Division in Ireland. The official announcement from Sun will come in a few days."

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  1. Re:all I go to say about this by Lonath · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Please explain to us how KDE is 'better' than GNOME. What can you do in KDE which I can't do in GNOME?

    I don't think that "What can you do that I can't do?" is the question. It's "What can be done in KDE easier than in GNOME?"

    In KDE, if you want to create a custom widget, you create a class derived from a known base widget: You add a few variables and a few methods, and maybe a callback signal or two and you're on your merry way. It seemed like this process was much more painful in GNOME when I looked at it. What is the process of creating custom widgets in GNOME? When I looked at it, it looked much more complex and contrived. I look at it as the compiler is dealing with a lot of the details that I don't want to worry about.

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  2. I'm dissappointed by -ryan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm dissappointed to see that Acentury1 didn't get the contract.

    -ryan

  3. Sun and Linux by shaji · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't Sun announce that OpenOffice will be ported to GNOME?
    Didn't Sun plan to use GNOME as default desktop of Solaris 9?

    Sun, Please walk the talk and talk the walk