Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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oGALAXYo wrote:
> He is absolutely right with that but sadly only he knows
> what to use and not to be confused.
Dude, that's the whole point. There will be 1 Menu/Toolbar API and all the others will be deprecated eventually. That's good.
> now they see that a new Toolbar and Menu code (and more >
> stuff) show up in GTK+ and right now it's unclear wether the
> developer needs to switch back on using a GTK-App
oGALAXYo wrote:
> He is absolutely right with that but sadly only he knows
> what to use and not to be confused.
Dude, that's the whole point. There will be 1 Menu/Toolbar API and all the others will be deprecated eventually. That's good.
> now they see that a new Toolbar and Menu code (and more >
> stuff) show up in GTK+ and right now it's unclear wether the
> developer needs to switch back on using a GTK-App
When the new API is available, you should use it.