GNOME Gets its Own Software Repository

PostThis writes "After the attack to the Gnome servers a few months back the Gnome Project was left without a third party software repository (which wasn't that usable anyway). The gap was filled in very recently by GnomeFiles.org. The site was built using BeBits as a model (BeOS users still swear by it) and they are looking into filling up their Gnome/GTK+ software database quickly; they are offering prizes to Gnome developers who will submit an app during the first week of the site's launch."

Comments

Glad the model has ben thouroughly tested...

[Anonymous Coward]

Both BeOS users swear by it...

Nice

[mfh]

Gnomefiles.org looks nice and intuitive. I like the RSS feed, the layout and the simple interface of the site. I've wanted to go in this direction for some time and I think I might just have to try gnome out now. Any suggestions for someone getting started with Gnome?

gnome-look

[Gandalfar]

And don't forget gnome-look for eye candy

List of prizes:

[rd4tech]

Four $25 Amazon.com gift certificates
- Ten OSNews subscriptions (allowing you to read a faster-loading OSNews without ads), a $20 value each.
- One copy of "Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition" by Mark Rochkind.
- Four blocks of $50 in free advertising to promote your application.

Nice!

Re:List of prizes:

[Henrik S. Hansen]

The FSF asks us to boycott Amazon.com because of the one click patent.

This is not true. FSF has in fact ended the boycott.

I've submitted mine..

[agent dero]

Yeah, I submitted mine today...it's called......um....gImmeaprize

Did I win?

slashdot = osnews + 5 days

[dotslashconfig]

While some people really like GNOME's design, I have significant issues with the software available to it and the desktop environment itself. GNOME has a hard time separating out libraries that it's not using for a given applications. The environment tends to take a shotgun approach at loading up EVERYTHING and then just dismissing libraries it's not using. The memory footprint, however, ends up being much larger than KDE (I didn't think this was possible until I ran GNOME).

I just hope that with this new incentive to bring in GTK+ apps that people start more closely examining the underlying software support for the GNOME project. I think GNOME is still light-years behind KDE, not so much in interface, but in foundation and logic.

I'd like to see more developers optimize GTK apps to only load needed libraries. I think this is one of the reasons linux has come under fire recently for being "unusable" on older systems - it loads up too much junk with the standard desktop environments. I don't mean for this to be a flame towards the GNOME project, but it's just an unfortunate trend I'm noticing.

GTK apps need to be refined, such that they don't start following the Microsoft paradigm of, "since we have it, let's bring everything in and add it to the toolbar... woot woot".

Any thoughts on this?

Re:slashdot = osnews + 5 days

[IamTheRealMike]

Well, if you're going to be as scientific as that here's the ldd list for kmail:

libkmailprivate.so.0 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkmailprivate.so.0 (0x40017000)
libkhtml.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkhtml.so.4 (0x403b7000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x406aa000)
libkjs.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkjs.so.1 (0x406c8000)
libpcreposix.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0 (0x40729000)
libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x4072c000)
libkdeprint.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdeprint.so.4 (0x4073d000)
libkparts.so.2 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkparts.so.2 (0x407fa000)
libkutils.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkutils.so.1 (0x4083d000)
libkwalletclient.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkwalletclient.so.1 (0x40891000)
libkdenetwork.so.2 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdenetwork.so.2 (0x408a0000)
libkspell.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkspell.so.4 (0x40970000)
libkdepim.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdepim.so.1 (0x40973000)
libmimelib.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libmimelib.so.1 (0x409c9000)
libktnef.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libktnef.so.1 (0x409fd000)
libksieve.so.0 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libksieve.so.0 (0x40a13000)
libkcal.so.2 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkcal.so.2 (0x40a21000)
libkabc.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkabc.so.1 (0x40af7000)
libvcard.so.0 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libvcard.so.0 (0x40b98000)
libkresources.so.1 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkresources.so.1 (0x40bba000)
libkio.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkio.so.4 (0x40bdf000)
libkdeui.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdeui.so.4 (0x40ee0000)
libkdesu.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdesu.so.4 (0x41159000)
libkdecore.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdecore.so.4 (0x41173000)
libDCOP.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libDCOP.so.4 (0x41353000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x41383000)
libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0x41395000)
libkdefx.so.4 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libkdefx.so.4 (0x413a9000)
libqt-mt.so.3 => /opt/kde3.2.1/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0x413d2000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia/tls/libGL.so.1 (0x41a0f000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x41a6d000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x41a83000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x41a87000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x41a90000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x41aa2000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x41af2000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x41b1a000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x41b1d000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x41b40000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x41b4e000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x41c2c000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x41c34000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x41c4c000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x41c5c000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x41c64000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x41c67000)
libfam.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfam.so.0 (0x41c78000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc+

Now if only...

[Xpilot]

...it would get its icon on Slashdot updated.