On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:31:13 -0400 Jamie McCracken <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why? > > Whilst it has some interesting ideas, its a mere prototype and is by and > large irrelevant to gnome as it stands (and thats true of gnome-shell as > well - they are both purely experimental) Both the new GNOME Shell and GNOME Zeitgeist are going to be core components of GNOME 3.0, according to [1]. > If the ideas prove worthy it will be rewritten in a non-vm language and > will likely use tracker which is infinitely more powerful given the > ability to show all your docs, music, photos as derived from its indexer > > I very much doubt an important always on component will be acceptable if > its coded in a VM - that has been the way with gnome to date and I dont > see that changing I sure hope so. Using Vala would give most of the benefits of C# without incurring in the same overhead. [1] http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/Plan -- Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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