Hot on the heel of his recent
interview with the BBC, Miguel is in a RealPlayer inteview, talking about how
Gnome is helping Linux grow up in the desktop market. Check out the full
interview at NMTV. And if you need RealPlayer, check out our recent
story about RealPlayer for Linux.
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I forgot to mention that I discovered some hoops you have to jump through to watch. First you have to login (user/pass = cypherpunk/cypherpunk worked for me). Then there's getting the funky javascript link to work. Here's the URL I had to hack together to make it work at 128K.
make sure you have rw permission on your /dev/mixer.
Yeah, I had a problem even in this interview, when the girl asked him about KDE, he mentioned that you can program in any language for Gnome, but KDE is only C++.
Aren't there bindings for other languages for KDE as well as Gnome?
Also, merely the fact that there are bindings for other languages doesn't change the fact that Qt is mainly for C++, and GTK is mainly for C. If he was going to mention differences, I think he should just have mentioned that.
Other than that though, this interview was a lot friendlier towards KDE than some of the other stuff I've seen.
- QT is C++ centric while Gnome uses more language neutral C bindings
- the open source QT isn't out yet
- Gnome uses CORBA
He took a noticeable pause to think before he started off on that topic. Perhaps he has learned from past experience that inflammatory comments on that score are counterproductive. You will grant that this is possible no?This is not true. Many of the apps in gnome-admin, gnome-network, and gnome-games are written in different languages.
For example, Aisleriot, our customisable solitaire engine, is mainly written in Guile (scheme), gulp, our printer utility, is mainly written in Objective C, and AbiWord, our word processor, is written mainly in C++.
Obviously, things in gnome-core are written in straight C, for the same reason that things in gnome-libs are.
Now, I'm not posting this to start a flame war about which Desktop Environment/Window Manager is better, but I do have something to say about GNOME.
Ever since I upgraded to RedHat 6, I decided I'd install GNOME, thinking it would be further along than it was when it was relesed with RH 5.2. Boy was that a mistake, GNOME hogs resources as much as Windows 95 does and it crashes even more often than that. Now, I know GNOME is actually a set of tools and blah blah blah, but I'm talking about the whole Panel interface, It craps out on me on a regular basis, both on my box at home and on my box a work. I've tried to compare how it adds up to KDE on both my machines. On my computer at work (Pentium 233, 32MB RAM, 127MB Swap), it crawls along at the pace that Win95 does on my the other box in my cubicle (A Pentium 100 for crying out loud! Also with 32MB RAM mind you). And more than that, GNOME uses 33% of my 127MB swap file! Don't get me wrong, I think GNOME is hella-slick, and I use it on my computer at home, since its a PII 450, with 128MB RAM and I got 127MB Swap, there's plenty of resources to spare. Now KDE runs A LOT smoother on my 233 at work, almost no slowdown, if any. For some reason though, I don't particularly care for KDE, and GNOME is just such crap, that I revert to using my dearly loved AfterStep. I do use the GNOME programs in AfterStep, and it works just fine.
But my comment is this: I thought the whole reason things were OpenSource was so that we could get away from badly written programs that hog lots of resources (Win 95, for example), and that's exactly what GNOME is. Why are RedHat software and so many others pumping all this manpower and time and money into such a huge pile of crap?
It just sucks so much, cause if GNOME worked properly, and ran smoothly, without hogging resources it would be the most awesome thing.
Sorry if I'm bringing up a subject that's been discussed before, but I haven't really read to much about this particular subject, I'm just talking from my experience. A good tip for someone who doesn't like KDE and doesn't have 128MB RAM would be just to use your favorite GNUstep window manager using the various programs that come with KDE and GNOME, that seems to work best with me..
-- My neighbors dog has a four inch clit.