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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There's no need to discuss during hours and hours, there are facts and opportunities :
1) GNOME applications and libraries /should/have to/ rely on GTK+ for widgets and GDK for drawing and window managements. Calling X apis directly might be considered as a hack and extremely reduces GNOME's portability.
2) GDK has an experimental directfb backend implementation maintained by Sven (GTK+ guy) and we all sincerely hope that GDK will be ported to directfb in the next 2.4 release.
3) GNOME running over directfb would bring some new features such as real window translucency, very light and fast drawing calls. No need to say it would make much more easyer for Handhelds to run GNOME in the future.
Finally that would not change anything for existing X11 users but would just bring more chances that /existing/new/ people might find with GNOME the Desktop they want.
So interested people who want to help make that happens are encouraged joining #gtk+ channel and discuss that project there.