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GNOME Development Site

Posted by justin++ on from the at-long-last dept.

An anonymous tipster contributed the following "To make it easier for hackers to write GNOME apps and make contributions to GNOME, the GNOME developers have just opened up the GNOME developers' site, where you can find brain dumps of their knowledge on the GNOME architecture, as well white papers, tutorials, FAQs, and web-browseable source code. " The site really does contain a lot of good documentation, and actually looks quite nice, I think.

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  1. Re:Slightly off-topic question by webslacker · · Score: 2

    LinuxPPC comes with both KDE and Gnome in the installer.

  2. Re:help!!! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2

    Don't know about '98, but GNOME runs just fine over Windows 95. (You're just going about it wrong -- you've got to start with "format" rather than "pkunzip".)

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  3. Re:Legal trap! - groan by NotZed · · Score: 2
    If you had read much of the content you would find that the actual reference content is output from the DocBook tools and has no such reference to RedHat anyway.

    Further, although the HTML output generated from the source documents does not all contain the license information (some does, for example mine does), it is included in the source forms of the documentation - which is the way people actually modify it.

    I don't see what is wrong with attributing hosting facilities either. It wouldn't be there if SOME company didn't pay the bills. Why is RedHat so evil?

    Also, if you end up wording your own documentation similar to something on the website then you maybe sued for copyright infringment.
    Don't yanks think about anything but sueing each other? Its only making the lawyers rich! Anyway, this would generally fall into the 'fair use' category.

    Maybe there needs to be more explicit legal information, but that is not terribly difficult to add.


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  4. Re:X is bad by scrytch · · Score: 2

    Ahem. No X I have seen ever uses TCP/IP locally. It uses a unix socket or even shared memory. It's the fact that widgets aren't representable in the X protocol and have to be drawn naively that causes some of the more major slowdowns (not to mention bloat).

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  5. Re:I am kind of curious by Fizgig · · Score: 2

    Well, there are python bindings for GNOME (don't know about glade). That's getting pretty close.

  6. Re:Will Moores law cure X? by scrytch · · Score: 2

    Yes, and anything that's twice as fast will STILL BE TWICE AS FAST. Citing Moore's so-called "law" is a lame cop-out I would expect from marketroids, not a geek who actually takes pride in having good code.

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  7. Don't feed the trolls by Joe+Patry · · Score: 2

    Man nothing brings 'em out like GNOME or RedHat. Maybe slashdot should put the topic of AC posting to a vote.

    Moving on to the topic:

    I can't see how anyone could view this in a negative light. More documentation makes for better programs, and some is better than none. Atleast there now is a central point for GNOME developers to look for information, in an organized matter. Keep up the good work GNOME developers.