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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! :-)

Re: Against the will of maintainers and current developers?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-08-07 16:12.

Let's be realistic here. Name a distro that ships with Epiphany as the default browser?

Fedora / Red Hat which alone covers the majority of GNOME users uses Mozilla as the default browser and are likely to go with Firefox in the future. Desktop integration with Epiphany is a noble goal but Firefox's extensions and cross-platform familiarity are just more valuable to me and many others in the long run.

Frankly users are going to be using Firefox due to sheer momentum at this point, no matter what GNOME blesses as the official browser. So we might as well try to play nice with it.

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