Linus is back on GNOME

[funkSTAR]

I would share thoughts by other full-time GTK3 developers, but there are none.

Sorry but you have gone ignorant by the way Qt development works. Everybody knows there is a great barrier between Qts commercial business serving non-desktop customers on non-linux platforms and GTK. People at GTK dont see doing Gnome development as a waste of time. So there are a rather large bunch working "on both sides of the API; gnome and GTK. I suggest you go read the blogs of

Clasen, principal gtk maintainer, doing alot of work on both side of the API.
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/

Taylor, former maintainer, now dev. Landed the frame sync stuff for 3.8
http://blog.fishsoup.net/
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-.../msg00013.html
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-.../msg00055.html

Larsson, gtk/glib dev, landed multi process broadway
http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/

Oh yeah and a bunch of intel guys are working to make "Wayland done right" on GTK/gnome.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694381
Thats like 10 times more assuring than Kwins brain damaged SSD. And frankly Qt dont care about this.

So yeah you are right. GTK doesnt sport many GTK-only devs, but they have something better; Devs who actually care about the free desktop as the primary customer.

So next time you post stuff about gnome be sure to include these links. Unless of course that you just try to get as biased as possible.

[Pawlerson]

Can you reshare that link ten times more? It is all you got left. Linus couldnt stand KDE because it is shit. And Otte? Also on gnome. KDE is dead. Hah.

No, he left gnome, because it was shit. He didn't say same things about KDE that he said about Gnome. KDE is in a very good shape and it's very healthy. Even if Gnome has improved you never know when some idiot will break something once again (like the idiot who broke Nautilus). Furthermore, Ubuntu's Unity is the new Gnome and this one is very usable and newbie friendly. Some of my friends have to use Ubuntu in their jobs, but they didn't even know what Ubuntu is. What's so great about it? They learnt it instantly.

[funkSTAR]

No, he left gnome, because it was shit. He didn't say same things about KDE that he said about Gnome. KDE is in a very good shape and it's very healthy.

LoL. He didnt leave gnome or gtk. His last commit at gtk is like three days old.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/com...e805a1560890f1

Now STFU.

[pingufunkybeat]

LoL. He didnt leave gnome or gtk. His last commit at gtk is like three days old.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/com...e805a1560890f1

Now STFU.

That's not Linus Torvalds.

Linus Torvalds uses Qt where it matters (the Linux build system, for example )

[pingufunkybeat]

Sorry but you have gone ignorant by the way Qt development works. Everybody knows there is a great barrier between Qts commercial business serving non-desktop customers on non-linux platforms and GTK. People at GTK dont see doing Gnome development as a waste of time. So there are a rather large bunch working "on both sides of the API; gnome and GTK. I suggest you go read the blogs of

Are you talking about Qt or GTK here? You're all over the place and impossible to understand.

GTK has one full-time developer and some of the GNOME guys are posting patches too. What exactly is your point? KDE has always been the community desktop, not controlled by any commercial entity. GNOME is developed by a small core of developers, most of them working for RedHat. In fact, GNOME has always been the desktop of big corporations and ambitious startups: Novell, SUN Microsystems, RedHat, Eazel, Helix Code, Ximian, Xamarin, etc.

Pick whatever you prefer, just stop spreading FUD

Now I expect proof that Qt is developed by aliens in North Korea....

[funkSTAR]

That's not Linus Torvalds.

Linus Torvalds uses Qt where it matters (the Linux build system, for example )

And GTK where it matters. Like subsurface a real deal desktop app.

[funkSTAR]

GTK has one full-time developer and some of the GNOME guys are posting patches too. What exactly is your point?

Excuse me but you are not able to understand the the basics about the GTK-gnome relationship. Since the GTK-people actually do care about the linux desktop the do BOTH gnome and GTK. WORKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE API.

I suggest you go look at who did the lions share of release management for GTK.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/refs/tags

Yeah thats right; Clasen. A dude you just called "gnome guy". Sorry but he is not just a "gnome guy", he is all over the place ON BOTH SIDES OF THE API. Fully competent and productive at BOTH SIDES(8+ years). Get it? And oh yeah look and see if you can find other familiar names too. I suggested you read the blogs of Larsson and Taylor. They WORK ON BOTH SIDES OF THE API too. Having guys doing this for years and years; You build talent mass. KDEs biggest problem is loosing this kind of talent; Noone at Qt cares for KDE anymore.

[runeks]

What? Linus doesn't use Unity?

[Vim_User]

Yeah he is not satisfied -yet. Still he prefers GNOME. Which means the alternatives are more SHITTY. LOL!!! So a true story of life: If you are a cool hacker you use GNOME. Because GNOME is the most extendable desktop outthere. PERIOD!!!! Only scriptkiddies, retards and mums use badly done Windows replicas.

Be cool, be GNOME!

Linus also uses uemacs as his text editor, may I suggest that you switch to it to be cool and not look like the retarded scripptkiddie mum you talk about?
By the way, I am neither using a retarded phone UI nor a Windows style UI, so you can save yourself some time with the inevitably following "You are to stupid to learn the new things!!!111!!! Welcome to 2013!!!!1111!!!111".

[moilami]

I really wish people would stop reading so much into it when Linus switches DE's. I switch DE's all the time.

It doesn't mean that he thinks the DE he's switching to is better, or prefers it. Sometimes, we just want to see what other DE's are doing. And, since he cares about Linux(it's his baby), he probably just feels as though he owes it to try out the big ones every now and then. And, you'll notice that he'll never say anything particularly nice about any DE because that would be showing favouritism.

So everyone, relax. It doesn't really mean... well, anything. We all like to switch to the other DE's every now and then to see what's going on in that world. It doesn't mean he hates the other DE's, it doesn't mean that he loves the new DE. He's a developer. They're genetically programmed to test-drive different kinds of software.

STFO U MORON



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