Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by computerishcat
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, recently did an interview with derStandard in which he discussed issues with Ubuntu's latest release, innovation, the future of GNOME, and other subjects. Perhaps the most interesting thing he said is that Linux does not yet deliver "a good enough user experience." Of course, you could say that of any operating system.
Editor's Note: QT-based Gnome was also an interesting point-of-view.
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GNOME would consider Qt if Nokia donated Qt to GNOME foundation and re-licensed it LGPL, but it will not replace GTK+. Qt would be just like XUL, SWT or any other GUI toolkit that feels (and works) naturally on GNOME desktop... maybe as accepted dependency on GNOME platform!
I don't know why people keep forgetting something very important: GNOME is not just a user of GTK+, GNOME owns GTK+ (technically wrong but practically correct). Those guys would take GTK+ wherever they feel like doing so for the benefit of the GNOME project. [This is something very important] KDE, the biggest user of Qt, are lucky to get if for free, but they have no control over the direction of Qt, they are under the mercy of Nokia's business strategy. Why would GNOME get itself in such a trap?