Coding The Future Linux Desktop [updated]

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @01:41AM from the they'll-use-keyboards dept.

the.jedi writes "With the release of GTK+ 2.4, and Gnome 2.6 due out some time next week, it seems of some the Gnome developers are looking at how they'll be coding Gnome and the rest of the Linux desktop. Havoc Pennington of Planet Gnome has written a short blog pondering and analyzing the available options as coders move towards high-level languages like java and C#. He gives a good overview and assessment of technologies like mono, OO.org's UNO framework, as well as other ways of tying new languages to the existing code base. An extremely interesting read for desktop linux hackers everywhere." Update: 03/17 14:44 GMT by T : Speaking of the future of Gnome, aeneas writes with a list of Gnome 2.6 release parties around the world (linked from gnome.org/start/2.5).

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ATTENTION PEOPLE by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-17 01:56 · Score: 0, Troll

There never was a problem with the file selector. The file selector is good. Lies were told about it by ungood MS and the hated Billgates
Linux already is the best desktop. Anyone who lies about that spreads MS FUD and is guilty of thoughtcrime
Linux could not be improved, as linux is doubleplus plusgood already
Disliking Linux is a sign of ungood crimethink

Signed, the /. collective hivemind
Re:How about still using C by Minna+Kirai · 2004-03-17 06:31 · Score: 0, Troll

GCC compiles per file. It doesn't compile the project as a whole,

The GNU toolset includes an auxiliary program which enables GCC to compile a whole program as one unit. It is named "cat".