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Canonical Announces Ubuntu App Showdown

Posted by Soulskill on from the pistol-based-apps-not-welcome dept.

alphadogg writes "Linux developers will soon have a chance to compete for prizes of laptops and smartphones, thanks to Canonical's announcement this week of the Ubuntu App Showdown contest. Developers will have from June 18 until July 9 — a total of three weeks — to create an app using Canonical's Quickly development tool, which combines Python and GTK into a single Ubuntu-centric package. The resulting apps will be judged by a five-member panel, with the developers of the top three receiving new Nokia N9 smartphones."

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  1. Re:They have dropped the Quickly requirement by Pecisk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, because while Quickly is nice, it's "one size fits all" thingy (if there ever is), and easiest way is to use Glade + Gedit/Geany/Anjuta (or Notepad++, if Windows is your thing).

    Anyway, this is good contest. Python with GTK+ is something really nice, and while it has some shortcomings, beginners can very easy start to hack nice looking apps using them.

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  2. Real Relatives Use Linux by Foresto · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's a bit pessimistic, don't you think? My mom uses linux and has far fewer troubles than she did when she was using Windows. Face it: most of what our relatives do with their computers takes place within a web browser, and browsers behave pretty much the same on linux as they do on other operating systems.