* Jordan Mantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-30 11:34:33]: <snip> > I am the guy responsible for gallium and so I'd like to clarify a few > things: > > 1) Gallium is not an offical Edubuntu project. It is being developed by > Edubuntu community volunteers, of their own accord. So far it is just a > Launchpad page and like 3 days of hacking around to see what is possible > to do. It *is* a part of a goal to have more Gnome educational apps that > several Edubuntu community memebers have wanted to see. > > 2) Gallium is not a "from scratch" app. We started by looking a Kalzium > (because we really admire it) and porting it's data and trying to > approach it as a GTK port rather then a rewrite. There is no reason why > we can't collaborate, I just wanted to have more to show the Kalzium > devs then the 3 days of hacking we have now. > > 3) The goal of the project is to build on the success Kalzium has had. > As a chemist I found gperiodic to be nowhere near as good, and it is > bascially a dormant project. I initially wanted to revive gperiodic, but > I saw Kalzium's data structure, wealth of information, and features were > way better. I'm mearly trying to give to the GTK/Gnome world what > Kalzium has done for the QT/KDE world. I personally have no preferrence > between Gnome and KDE, and I'm really not trying to start a DE war. I > just saw a need and thought maybe I could help fill it.
OK, well to clarify even further. The other Gallium developers and I had a talk with Jean Brefort (the Gnome Chemistry Utils developer) on IRC about gallium and gchemutils' periodic table. We have decided to discontinue Gallium as a separate project and instead put our effort into the gchemutils periodic table. Gallium was a proof-of-concept project and we had no desire to duplicate effort. As Travis said in #gallium - "Gallium is dead, long live gchemutils :)" -Jordan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
