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Gnome, Mozilla and the Challenge of Longhorn

Submitted by mccaffer on Wed, 2004-04-07 05:36. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

With lots of talk recently about mono/java/python, it seems like a response to Longhorn and XAML is brewing. People at mozilla are talking about how to create an alliance against the hegemon. Co-operation with gnome is discussed on mozillazine. I do hope that gnome can use the XUL language or something like it so that gui programming is easy for us mere mortals. Lets not re-invent the wheel reproducing XAML when we've already got XUL!

Re: Gnome, Mozilla and... What about C++?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-04-07 19:16.

You *can't* compare C++ with Java, Mono, python... C++ has no garbage collector, do you know memory leaks?.

The Linux Desktop problem is very serious: XFree-X.org or whatever clone is an ancient Windows System, no modular, C programmed. Gtk is programmed in "strange" C OOP (bloats!).

Solution: build a "consistent" Window System (use C++), use XUL , CSS or similar to build top GUI. Use UNO/DBUS to integrate applications. ...etc.

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