Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Aug 2007 15:52 UTC, submitted by zaboing
"A few months ago, the GNOME Mobile Platform was announced to the public. One of the main forces behind the launch of this initiative was Nokia, which uses a lot of GNOME-components in its Linux-based Internet Tablets Nokia 770 and N800. During this years GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to sit down with Carlos Guerreiro, Nokias Manager for Open Source Software, to talk - amidst other things - about the not so different needs of personal computers and mobile devices, about the necessity for GTK+ 3.0 and the impact of the iPhone launch."
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2005-10-20
Yeah, what would be article about 10 years of GNOME without solid flamewar about advantages/disavantages/honesty/dishonesty/etc/atnauseum each toolkit.
People, get a grip! Nor GTK, nor QT won't go away. Bashing oponents for being knee-jerking, less free than another one, less user friendly in this scenario is utter nonsense, because both enviroments have proven to be very useful for number of people!
But looking from other side, there is a reason why GTK and GNOME is still mostly chosen as business platform, while QT is beloved by "I will never forget Windows" and geeks crowd. GNOME has striking simplicity and elegance, but KDE has power user karma all over it - partly thanks to toolkit it was based upon. Yes, there are GNOME apps who are "sea of options" in their menus and there are KDE who are very lightweight and simple.
Some people say it confuses ISV and it blocks acceptance of Linux as platform. Right, don't get me started. It was never a problem for Windows, which usually hosts myriads of apps based on very different toolkits. ISV is usually driven by money and they watch what is available for them and how they can use it. For long time QT was king, because of superior documentation and leadership from Trolltech. GTK and GNOME was cool, but rarely anyone knew what to do with them. Situation for now has changed - GNOME has good docs (although project still working on improving them), good, stable API and documented coding practices. Also lot of new, interesting technologies have found their home first at GNOME project - DBUS, NetworkManager, Compiz/Beryl, Tango project's initialization was driven by GNOME, etc.
But now KDE tries to turn the tide with KDE4. And God, this is exciting times because of that. Both projects COMPETE. And as we see, competition is about to change GUI very radically.
So let's be cool. We have it! We all have our favorite environments. It rocks, because they are suited for us. So let's celebrate that!