[ Thanks to Havoc
Pennington for this link. ]
“This is an interview that I recently conducted with some
people that are someway involved with the GNOME Project. It talks
largely about the future of GNOME and what the developers are
currently working on. The topics discussed were general visual
appearance of GNOME, GConf, Eye of Gnome + GdkPixbuf, GMC and its
replacement, Glade and Libglade, gtk+, and the new WM Spec….I
hope you enjoy it. Also note, that the questions and sections are
in no particular order 🙂 “
“Looking back at GNOME 1.0 and October GNOME, what are some
things that you learned that you wish to incorporate in future
GNOME releases (be it 1.1.0 or 2.0)?”
“[Miguel de Icaza (miguel@gnu.org)]:
Well, there are many things that need to be incorporated in future
versions; I am firmly convinced that we can improve GNOME
iteratively to suit the needs of a more diverse user-base.
Many things are being worked on for the next release of GNOME:
The new configuration system (GConf), the new image loading system
(Gdk-pixbuf) that replaces Imlib, the Bonobo component and document
model (Based entirely on CORBA and inspired in various existing
component and document models), the GNOME Object Activation
Framework and various smaller tasks.”