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Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!!

Submitted by sragavan on Fri, 2004-08-06 11:31. GNOME
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GNOME Foundation is proud to announce the relaunch of the open source desktop integration bounty. The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience.

This contest is sponsored & authored by Novell and is being administered by the GNOME Foundation

The contest consist of new set of small projects and also the unsolved old projects from the previous rounds.

Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect the prize.

Unlike the round one and two, there is no time deadline. The completed project will go into the upcoming GNOME release, depending upon the freeze dates.

People participating in the contest will be hanging out on the #bounties channel on irc.gimp.org.

To find out more information about the Desktop Bounties, check the web site:

http://www.gnome.org/bounties/

Thanks for everyone who participated so far!

Happy GNOME hacking! :-)

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Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!! by Anonymous George
hah ... I've found a bug in the bounty page :P by mr_spuck
What about checking in/completing round one? by Anonymous George
Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!! by dbrody
Re: Firefox? by Anonymous George
Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!! by Anonymous George
Against the will of maintainers and current developers? by Anonymous George
Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!! by Anonymous George
Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!! by FooBarWidget
gossip by Anonymous George
Re: they have different scope by Anonymous George
Re: thats a little bit harsh by Anonymous George
Re: thats a little bit harsh by Anonymous George
Re: thats a little bit harsh by Anonymous George

Re: Desktop Integration Bounty: Check-in 2 Cheque-out !!!!

Submitted by bjesus on Sat, 2004-08-07 15:39.

Okay, this one is for you and for foo.

I think you guys are childish and stupid. The guy you commented on has some very good points IMHO, and even if not, he, unlike you, knew how to show his thoughts. Why the hell do you need to talk like a mad 15 years old? It won't take you anyware. Besides, it seems that he, more the 99% of the people who has any kind of a problem with any Free Software - has tried to fix it himself. He had his own problems with coding, but he tried.

You could say that you don't agree with his philsophy of how a GUI should look like, give him some pointers about the AIM protocol. You don't have to do that, but writing the comments you wrote won't bring the Free Software community nowhere. It hurts, and it doesn't help at all.

And as a personal note to the guy who wrote that comment - I tend to agree with you about the problems with Gaim. I'm not a coder, so I have no idea about their policy of accepting patches etc', but I too don't think Gaim is that perfect as an IM. It has some seriuse GUI problems IMO, and it seems that there's some wrong things with the way it's being develop. I guess that if it's really that bad, someone should fork Gaim and start working a polishing the GUI and accepting patches. True, it won't be that widely supported, but if it'll be a good enough, it could win. And if we could do things better, we should.