Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Jun 2003 06:49 UTC
One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn't have the polish or stability of a .0 release. But one year has passed. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Update: Screenshots inside.
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Right, that may all be true facts but this is no excuse for NOT investigating into it. As more people understands it as more people may be interested and willing to help. Here is a list of supported Modules for DirectFB and those lack of support are waiting for you to help.
http://www.directfb.org/modules.xml
Also remember that the people working on GTK+ are the same working on DirectFB.
> Also, GDK (the Gimp Drawing Kit) has been available before
> GTK2, they had it in GTK1 as well.
Yes I know this.
> GTK passes commands to GDK anyway, and not directly to X.
Mostly true yes, GTK+ itself and GTK+ only apps are in majority not the issues. I rather speak about the GNOME applications and libraries who use a mixture of GDK and sometimes X11 calls (while these calls sometimes could be avoided). I was playing with compiling GNOME to use DirectFB for quite some time now and hacked around in a handfull libraries only to have them work (function is another thing) and I was able to smoothly compile over the half of GNOME without problems. I only failed with libwnck, metacity and gnome-terminal (not the VTE widget, it works with GDK). Since I failed with libwnck some apps and other modules who depend on libwnck refused to compile as well. But chances are great. See a speedy, clean, less memory eating desktop system in the means of AmigaOS, Mac, BeOS or QNX.