On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 06:36 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
Even though Lcaza is one of the founder of Gnome, This article is bit overstated, The entire argument about linux not maintaining backwards compatibility is bullshit (Just my opinion). Linux Desktop's base API's (either Gnome libraries or KDE libraries) are very stable. I'm not sure if he is still in Gnome Foundation, or kicked out of it long time back with his Mono. He noticed an opportunity now to FUD, because everyone hate Gnome3 and Linux Desktop is in dilemma with various DE projects(cinnamon, mate, XFCE-revival etc.,). Yeah, Everyone hate Gnome3, Let it be!! But as a follower and user of Gnome I have to say it has the best subsystems which have potential to beat OSX or Windows or Android anytime. All they need is developers. Gnome's base libraries (Gtk, Glib family) are rock-solid and no major changes happened AFAIK. On top of it we have GStreamer, PulseAudio, Telepathy, Avahi subsystem which have long proved their potential. On the lower, we have these *Kits,d-bus and systemd from freedesktop.org (pollkitd, udiskd, packagekit etc.,) which are making life easier. The only problem is, not all of these layers (Kernel + service-layer (feedesktop.org stuff) + Gnome3) synced well in major distros. Fedora is the only distro which put all these things fully, to some extend Arch. Ubuntu went their way with Unity, Debian going their way to Xfce, Mint went with Cinnamon and Mate, Gentoo accepted gnome3, but not so quick to accept all freedesktop.org stuffs because they play big in service layer(Yeah!! Lennart (Po[e]*tter)(ing)* f???ed udev with his systemd http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/259045) I think Linux Desktop is alive and ready for BigTime. Its future will be decided not by the DE projects, but by the distros. Thanks, Mohan R _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
