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GNOME One Step Closer To Using .NET
fader writes: "On gnome.org is an article indicating that there are now GTK bindings for C#. Basically, when combined with MONO, this means that you should be able to write at least some rudimentary .NET applications for GNOME." Update: 04/12 00:30 GMT by T : Hetz points out that Qt already has this capability (also in Alpha): here's a link to the Qt-CSharp project, and a proof-of-concept screenshot as well.
The gtk-sharp project only runs on Win32: .Net Framework installed, as the binding cannot be compiled on linux yet.
To hack on Gtk#, you still need a Win32 machine with the
Personally, I'd rather see Ximian assist and support Tor Lillquist's efforts to port GTK to Win32. The port of GIMP to Windows took painfully long, in part because the team working on it is so small.
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I personally believe anything ".net" related is a good thing. ".net" is a tidal-wave, it will gain developers and mindshare, C# is a fairly good language, not perfect, but good. I think that _anything_ that opens up doors and options that were not previously available is a positive step. No one is forcing development or usage of these tools, it is simply an option.
Options are _good_.
Feel free to rip apart this post on the basis it is not anti-M$, my apologies!
The selection of the title of this article is very disappointing and misleading. I wish that slashdot would have done a bit more research before posting this article.
.NET. It just happens that Ximian is implementing the ECMA Standard for .NET and a few other pieces to offer compatibility with some .NET applications, and to provide a better platform for them to write their own applications with.
To clarify - noone has stated in any way that GNOME will *ever* use
What was released yesterday is called GTK-Sharp, which is simply a set of language bindings for GTK to enable people to use C# to write GTK programs. Now, when the python bindings to GTK were released, it would be equally foolish to state that "The GIMP is one step closer to being written in Python." Think before you post articles, please.
As far as the announcement itself is concerned, I am very pleased. I am intrigued by the possibility of a sanely designed cross-platform language independent solution for developing applications and web services. I really like the idea of a common class library and the common intermediate language. The guys at Ximian are doing some great work. Keep it up!
Having used Bourne shell for so long I figure everything past the # is meant to be comment, not really meant to be executed.
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Gosh, I care, and the people working on the project care.
Keep in mind that this is a specialty article, not a mainstream article. You are free to ignore it. If you don't care, there are plenty of other places on slashdot for you to waste your time.
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I feel so special. I am FINALLY a troll. Makes me feel all warm and .net inside.
And that is the Microsoft plan. They have always focused on building troops of developers for their platform. In the early 90s, MS was selling their development tools to Universities and students are rates much lower that the professional developer. Thus, the students left school with an understanding of the Microsoft way of development and pushed the companies to adopt this way of development.
.Net craze, then more people will learn .Net and start pushing that idea at work. Once again, MS wins because then they change the platform all they want.
Now the story is the same, but MS is targeting the open source icons. If they can get these people to join in the
This is becomming the key difference between developers. There is this group that understands C, assembly and the architecture of the hardware. They can move between all of these different SDKs and still grasp the concepts. It's the MIS professional who are going to get screwed. When your education depeneds on the current SDK for developing applications, what happens when no one uses the SDK? Look at where everyone who just learend Java is worried about going. I'd rather take the CS degree path and learn about all the theory. I can always learn new languages that MS is pushing later on.