Do you have any idea how many people save hunderds of dollars by having GIMP and Inkscape available on Windows?
2014-06-06 20:29 GMT+02:00 C. Thomas Stover <c...@thomasstover.com>: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:08:24 +0200, Tarnyko wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > It may have been obvious to anybody following the releases, but I > > severely lack the free time (hence the ability) to work on GTK+3 for > > Win32, for some months now. So I am basically asking for help. > > > > I summarized the who-what-when in this blog post : > > > > http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/48 > > > > So if anybody wants to contribute, he's more than welcome to answer this > > thread, or show up on IRC. > > > > Regards, > > Tarnyko > > I'm interested in being interested. Are you looking to move on entirely, > or are you just looking for additional team members? Of the questions > that come to my mind that would be appropriate for the mailing list, the > first and most high level is existential in nature. I'm unfamiliar with > the back story on why Tor Lillqvist moved on. I myself switched jobs last > year, and no longer even have to acknowledge windows even exists. The > notion of windows development on windows itself has long died in my eyes. > Still, I have interest in maintaining the ability of a number of small > projects to cross compile to windows targets. (Either from linux or cygwin > hosts). > > Sincerely I mean not to troll, but I do find myself questioning the > validity of cross platform development in the current era. With the > seemingly overwhelming forces of fragmented proprietary platforms with > lock-in™ based technology winning more and more over to "the dark side", > people who are actually interested in open/community based/lower level > technology generally just use a linux or a bsd. Like me, the ones out of > that group that still have to put up with windows (and even osx), get > older and either move on to new positions or gain the seniority to phase > out the silliness. So while the intellectual challenge of getting any > sort of work done with windows will always be a thrilling pursuit for > those of us with a certain type of post traumatic stress disorder, are > there enough end users for this? > > [editors note: I just deleted two paragraphs of even-less-constructive > ranting, that can be summarized as an even further off topic grumbling > about me not liking OSX and that "other" toolkit.] > > The pleasure and professorial paths that desktop computing with open > source software offer will continue to grow, though as a percentage of > all things software development, it will continue to decline. Given that > model, it just seems like an indicator of more consolidation for the core > user base. > > There is of course an even more pessimistic school of thought that comes > to the conclusion that the self inflicted damage from the last generation > of desktop environments will revive 90's era 'doz on the desk and 'nix in > the closet/cloud to a point where things like gtk on windows are more > important than ever, but I'm not that camp yet. (Too many cool things > like i3wm, for that.) > > C. Thomas Stover > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz
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