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GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the uphill-battles dept.

qa'lth writes "Today marks the occasion of the release of Gorm 1.0, the Interface Builder for the GNUstep project, and with its release, comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects. Finally, today, Free Software users can enjoy the power of a well-designed, powerful object-oriented system derived from OpenStep, legacy to the acclaimed MacOSX, through GNUstep, our loving reimplementation of the OpenStep standard."

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  1. Riiight. by coolGuyZak · · Score: 5, Insightful
    with its release, comes the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects

    Riiight. 'Nuff Said.

    1. Re:Riiight. by molnarcs · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah - I don't know which is worse: 1) making such claims just for publicity (flamebait?) 2) or truly believing in it. In either case, the first screenshot you bump into will discredit their claim immediately. Compare it with anything trolltech has to offer with qt4 (or kde4's plasma efforts, koffice kids, etc.) and their development tools... I don't mention GNOME development tools because I'm not familiar with them, but I don't think they will be "obsoleted" either.

  2. Re:who cares by ScootyPuffJr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I disagree here. Drag and drop can be incredibly intuitive if it's implemented in a sensible way.

    I use drag and drop a lot when using Mac OS X simply because it works so well. Dragging files to the trash, dragging files to applications to open them, dragging images off web pages to save them etc.. it just comes naturally after a while (whereas digging through menus to find features like that has to be learnt every time). And with Exposé, you never need to rearrange windows.

    Just because Windows (and therefore Linux, as sadly the linux desktops have heavily copied windows as opposed to OS X) can't do drag and drop effectively doesn't mean it's inviable. It just means that it's been made inviable through poor design.