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Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative
Derwent sends along a Computerworld piece which begins: "The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME. During a presentation at this year's linux.conf.au conference, Canonical's David Mandala said Ubuntu Mobile has changed a lot over the past year... 'I worked on ARM devices for many years so a full Linux distribution on ARM is exciting,' Mandala said, adding one of the biggest challenges is reminding developers to write applications for 800 by 600 screen resolutions found in smaller devices. 'The standard [resolution] for GNOME [apps] is 800 by 600, but not all apps are. For this reason Ubuntu Mobile uses the GNOME Mobile (Hildon framework) instead of a full GNOME desktop, but since Nokia open sourced Qt under the LGPL it may consider this as an alternative.'"
"Nobody educated isn't looking into dumping gnome" you mean?
Everyone with half a brain or more realizes that QT is the superior framework, with much superior backing over the hacked together hodge-podge of random dependencies that makes up gnome. I predict that Gnome is going to see a lot of defection in a due time as it's hacked together nature will become more evident and make it increasingly harder to hide what a fossile it is. I say, let it die, the original reason for its existence is already gone and all that remains is inertia and deluded fanboys.
There's also Debian ARM, which avoids the boutique OS douchebaggery factor.
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