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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It's not that much that needs to get ported. I was able to compile over 50% without significant issues (from 80-85 modules). Sure there are a bunch of things which ends in blocking further compile. So I tend to say that we can easily work inside the core GNOME tree without requirement of having to set up a new official project. But that's a vague guessing chances are that we may hit into difficulties here and there. As dolphy told me, the DirectFB GDK backend should have everything needed to get GNOME on it. This way we come a significant step further to simplify the whole Linux installation process, the confusion between Console and XFree and overall pleasurement. There are a lot of benefits that I could tell but I think everyone should at least peek on DirectFB on their own because seeing the benefits is better than getting told. Playing with GTK-DEMO in DirectFB was really a big pleasurement. Don't forget that there are various other GNU OperatingSystems that load up with Framebuffer on default so the requirements are there already, only the drivers need to get supported more but this is possible over time.
And thanks for your Positive feedback, same thanks goes to Dolphy too