I do agree that we need a vision and a long term roadmap. When I ask about goals or vision, most people respond with something very specific and technical. I feel like we need to have a bigger vision that is universally shared.
Where will GNOME be in 5 years? What will it do? What products/projects will be a part of it? Who will be using it? What world problem will it have solved? Stormy On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/2/22 Dave Neary <[email protected]>: > > Have we lost the mobile battle? It certainly appears that GTK+ has lost > > the mobile battle, but all of the hard work that GNOME hackers have put > > into the middleware platform and components like Gstreamer, Dbus, > > Telepathy and Pulseaudio are now cornerstone parts of both the free > > desktop and the mobile platform. > > > > I would agree that the GNOME GUI platform is not exciting application > > developers right now, and that's something we need to fix. And it's not > > an easy problem. > > I'd like to add a bit of an optimistic overtone here. > > GTK+ might not be exciting for mobile developers, but I don't think > none of the companies "supporting it" were seriously pushing the > toolkit into that direction rather than monkey patching it to make it > work well enough. So I'd say that GTK+ has gained very little in that > regard as all this time it's mostly RedHat supporting the > maintainership weight of the stack and the ones pushing it forward as > a company over the years. > > However, GTK+ is still the de-facto toolkit for the X.org platform, > people aiming to write apps that integrates well with the Linux > desktop, choose GTK+, sure it has many issues, but it has also many > great things and a rock solid code base. > > In a broader sense, I think that maybe we should put back our focus on > promoting the stack as what it really has been and still is for most > people, a platform to create great desktop applications for the Linux > platform. > > -- > Un saludo, > Alberto Ruiz > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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