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Exciting new Gnome Developments

linuxupdate.blogspot.com — Gnome development is starting to get very exciting. The inclusion of gtkbuilder with new functionality and the possibilities started by GVFS, the next generation virtual file system for gnome. Exciting times are ahead for Gnome.

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  • nubtard, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Source: http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2007/07/developing-gnom.html

    GTKBuilder has already been on digg. Still digg for GNOME coolness.
  • dgblackout, on 10/11/2007, -18/+41. gnome
    2. ???
    3. profit
  • MavRevMatt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Looking good, makes you want Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu, now.
    • sishgupta, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Try out the tribe 2 release. It is pretty stable imho but ymmv.
      Theres a link in my digg homepage articles for it.
    • hobophobe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ubuntu isn't the only game in town. The various distros all build off of each others' developments and deserve credit for their work. Being Ubuntu-centric is silly.
  • mikal, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5We get it, we get it, Gnome development is slow, but this article making fun of it is not helping.
  • notque, on 10/11/2007, -18/+1I know, I'm very excited!

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872864839/102-6860608-4695324?ie=UTF8&tag=famouspeoplewith&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0872864839

    Not since his all-time best-selling title, 9/11, published in the Open Media series in 2001, have readers had a timely, short, easy-to-read, affordable Chomsky. Unlike 9/11, Interventions is a writerly work-a series of more than thirty tightly argued essays aimed at various aspects of US power and politics in the post-9/11 world. While critical of US military interventions around the globe, each piece in the book is in itself an intellectual intervention aimed at raising public ire about the consequences of US use of power at home and abroad.

    Interventions' subjects span from 9/11 and the Iraq war to Social Security and Intelligent Design, South America and Asia, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the election of Hamas, Hurricane Katrina, and the US concept of "just war."

    According to BusinessWeek, "With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us-and to discern what they are leaving out. . . . Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening." Chomsky's Interventions delivers what readers want: an accessible set of skeleton keys for opening up a wide range of global issues dominating today's political landscape.
  • c4171, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16That article does not mention the fetal development of Gnomes, anywhere! Buried.
  • Attrition, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Sounds exciting.
  • datastorageguy, on 10/11/2007, -8/+6Dam thought this was going to be a story about some big news about those short little *****.
  • crappylinks, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14"Gnome development is starting to get very exciting."

    Is this story from 2007 or 2002?
  • sishgupta, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17I am a gnome user and I love it, but the gnome team needs to step things up. KDE4 is going to smoke gnome if it is anything like how I imagine it will be.
    Maybe gnome will continue to be a more traditional desktop to meet that market segment.
    • msgyrd, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Doubtful. KDE is something you either love or hate. Personally, I'd rather use Windows or just a basic shell prompt than use KDE.
  • skyshock1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Isn't there a gnome app in development similar to Katapult for KDE and Quicksilver for the Mac? That'd be a HUGE plus for me as a Gnome user if it's anything as powerful as Quicksilver.
    • msgyrd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gnome-launch-box (you'll have to compile it yourself, no .debs yet)

      Deskbar provides similar function, but is closer to OS X's Spotlight. It comes installed by default with Ubuntu.

      And if you just love Katapult, it runs in Gnome too, you just have to install the KDE library dependanies with it (apt/synaptic does it for you).

  • Loonacy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I think I'm more excited about the news that Anjuta has released a stable 2.x, I've been waiting for that for a LONG time.
  • stonyhill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'll be excited when I see the apps built with gtkbuilder.
    • DrBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Totem's mostly been converted to use GtkBuilder, but you'll see no difference between a GtkBuilder and a libglade app unless you look at the code (which'll be cleaner :D).
  • charlie763, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3If you are interested in using Glade and Python to develop your application, checkout Gladex (https://launchpad.net/gladex). It's a little program that will take your Glade XML file and generate executable Python code. It's pretty easy to use. The 0.4 release should have support for Ruby and possibly other languages.

    The 0.2 release: https://launchpad.net/gladex/+download
    • Ademan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Generating code from glade files is frowned upon, the xml files are preffered (through libglade of course)
      • charlie763, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It uses the .glade file and libglade to create the GUI. What I mean by "generate executable Python code" is that Gladex will generate a Python script that uses libglade. You input a yourApp.glade and Gladex outputs:

        yourApp_callbacks.py - Gladex goes through yourApp.glade, identifies all the handlers, and creates skeletal callback function in this file.

        yourApp.py - This is the script that you run. It imports libglade and all the important bit you need to get your program executed. This also imports youApp_callbacks.py. You do not need to edit anything in this file. It mainly uses a dictionary to link widget events to functions in yourApp_callbacks.py.
  • caudron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11That's it? I'm not trying to be mean or whatever, but that was pretty lame. The summary was just as informative as the "article".

    I mean, come on. At least spend as much time writing these things as we spend reading them. Details, implications, screenshots, insights, hell even hopes and rumors---all the stuff that would have made this interesting. Try some of that next time.

    Tom Caudron
    • tetsura, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3lol, exactly what i was thinking
    • championchap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4At least spend as much time writing these things as we spend reading them.
      Haha, mahn that made me laugh!

      "It took an hour to write.. I thought it'd take an hour to read!!"
  • getsk3wled, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2it's more fun to think that we're talking about the gnome creature, then to think about ubuntu stuff. Try it, think about the gnomes, then read the title "Exciting new Gnome Developments."
    Totally.
  • Avian00, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hey everyone! I've got exciting news! I've been doing... stuff! Oh, and I've done some other stuff too! Expect GREAT things soon!
  • pHr34kY, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I coded something in GTK+ once... it was a total pain just to get the widgets onto a form. That tool makes it look much easier than doing it in vim :)
    • Ademan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Uh glade has been doing this for a hell of a long time (years?). I GUESS the idea is glade is essentially being integrated directly into gtk+ itself, which is nice because it reduces the dependency count, but it seems unnecessary.
      • DrBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0GtkBuilder is essentially libglade integrated into GTK, yes, but it fixes a lot of long-standing libglade bugs, as well as being able to remove a lot of hacks, and making the whole thing cleaner. For example, you can now make UIBuilder menus in GtkBuilder XML, as well as pre-populating treeviews; both are things you can't do with glade.
  • hotani, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4C'mon, it's a 3 line blog post. Why is this getting dugg?
  • Mengoxon, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Wow - now I understand why Linux never really took off. Nothing but technical jargon without any explanation of benefits for a non-savy potential user...
  • jejones, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I'm dumping GNOME unless and until something is done about gnome-screensaver. Any screensaver that denies users the ability to configure screensavers is, in the words of the developer of gnome-screensaver, inherently broken.
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