Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jul 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by zaboing
During his opening speech at the GNOME Developers conference GUADEC Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu distribution, called for a common vision inside the project, an area in which the project as a whole is currently lacking. Only a few hours later Red Hat developers Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark presented their own proposal for a reinvention of the Open Source desktop: The GNOME Online Desktop. My take: As I have been saying for a long time, GNOME needs a vision (and leaders) for the future. I'm glad that people are finally stepping up.
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2005-11-10
Apple don't seem to have a problem with exciting their developers about their APIs and developer tools. Heck, even as a Windows user before I knew about their APIs and developer tools, that's one of the draws to the platform.
GNOME need to be more public, inviting and transparent with their developer features and APIs to attract people to the platform. They also need to show some excitement. KDE is beating them in every way - they've Plasma and QT4 which a lot of people will have heard of, even if they don't know what they are, and an exciting new vision for the desktop with KDE4
If anything, I'd say GNOME are overreacting... and setting themselves up for a fall. Get developers excited about what you've got now - not some pie in the sky ideas that just arn't practical. I don't want a gecko-box. I like being offline sometimes thank you.