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The GNOME Roadmap
glockenspieler writes "Recently on the the Gnome Foundation mailing list, Dave Camp posted a draft Gnome Roadmap for versions 2.8 and Beyond. Issues up for discussion are Mozilla/Epiphany, incorportation of peer to peer filesharing, blogging, addition of more media widgets, and many others. Time for Gnome users to weigh in on what improvements that you would like to see. If that's not enough, then there's always the the C# versus Java versus ? discussion."
Don't have mod points, so I'll just weigh in with an "I agree."
Believe me, I'm as surprised by my comment as you are.
One of the MSDN tech videos demonstrated a guy writing a 10-50 line XAML app that updated his website blog for him via .NET.
We're basically chasing someone's tail again--as we have done for the past 10 years. I agree with another poster here, I want a working desktop first. Where's the sane development API? Oh, I forgot, everything is about "choice" and we need 23 different libraries, APIs, and window managers that all conflict with each other (I have to install two entire fucking desktop environments to be able to run each other's apps! Amateurish and unprofessional). For crying out loud, my GNOME memory footprint is sucking up more RAM than XP does on my laptop. I don't even want to think about that krudgy slow thing we call KDE...
How is it geeks can get so many things right--Linux kernel, Apache, PHP--and so many things wrong--KDE, GNOME, XFree86, and basically anything attempting GUI usage? It's like when it comes to moving away from the technical stuff and actually getting creative and interacting with people, geeks fall short not only in social life but in their application projects. Not a troll but a real observation here--the problem is who is developing these projects and how they approach them, which is illustrative of the community as a whole (including Slashdot)...
"Sufferin' succotash."