On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Shaun Marolf wrote: > You may not understand the decision but Canonical is looking to develop > a desktop edition that can take on Mac and Windows and eventually win. > Hmm more user friendly apps make sense in that regard.
They won't be going anywhere in that direction until they can get their head out of GTK+'s 20-year-old bum. It doesn't lend itself to rapid application development (at all) and is a pain to debug. While superior libraries such as Cocoa and .NET exist and improve with every release, GTK+ seems to be standing stock-still. That so much free software exists in spite of GTK+ is a sign of people's dedication to free and open-source software, not to GTK+'s success as a GUI library. I think they'd be better off moving towards Qt, but even that doesn't have the degree of polish and stability seen in modern commercial products. Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! http://cmiller.fsdev.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
