GNOMEs Git

I never understood, why GNOME switched to yet another client/server based revision control (SVN) back then. But who was I to tell them that much more is possible. I aint the coder.
Anyway if I reas this from the new F-Spot:
This is the first release where we all used Git and it has massively paid off. [...]

GNOME: Oh dear, here they come again

I was hopeful to see some major changes in GNOME Topaz (3.0). But now I have quickly viewed the discussions on the marketing list. Especially those threads:

GNOME Marketing Strategy (Was Audiences), Paul Cutler
GNOME 3.0 slogans, Michael Hasselmann

PLEASE DONT (do it again)
Dont waste your time thinking again about target audiences and slogans. Some say the real [...]

tag based working ? 1 ?

The more I do with TAGS in blogs and in microblogging and with bookmarks the more I think this could be a way to work with a lot more.
One problem we face when working with keywords is the selection of keywords. We have many different systems of keywords – like for photo management or music [...]

Fedora Community

Max Spevack hold a talk about the Fedora Community on 2009 FOSDEM. Which I suggest you listen first before reading on:

Essentially I think Max grabbed the “Community” at the wrong handle. He elaborated a lot about how Red Hat and Fedora  work together and ow they enable people to build uppon [...]

Another Online Desktop Idea

GNOME has its vision of what a online desktop should be. I have another. The idea is to find a replacement for:

VPN network access
XDMCP graphical logins
SSH logins
etc.

My idea – and I am sure I am not the only one having it is to have rather a local login to a desktop – but then be [...]

In need of a major new GNOME panel

I suggest that people start working on an alternative GNOME panel now. I have seen some suggestions on a GNOME wiki page, but I think most directions are very wrong. Like what you see here:

Essentially these are imitations of the fancy Mac panel. But I think that the Max panel does [...]

Will Jabber be the new HTTP?

Jabber is geting more and more attention these days – as most freemail providers provide it also as a chat protocol and integration into different web software advances I tend to think that it might become THE internet protocol. Why is that? Well it allows communication between desktop applications and server applications. It also allows [...]

Software philosophy

I recently stumbled upon a statement mentioning that OpenBSD is living a developers culture meaning that they fix things for themselves ratherthan for an abstract user. I had to think about this for a while. I think this is not a really seldom approach in software projects but in fact quite common. I think one [...]

Comparing TV sets and PCs!?

Whats the difference betweena tv set and a PCs? You know you can buy a tv and then maybe use it 6-7 years without being forced to do any updates or replace it, unless you want something better, bigger, whatever. I came to this question why tv sets are so different when it comes to [...]

Make runtime executables with VisualWorks

Hi, to all those who are doing the the WalkThrough PDF of Cincoms VisualWorks . I already thought I was dumb as I saw that on version 7.5 my version of stripped down helloworld (hello.im) never was stripped down. The solution is simple: VW 7.5 ignores the name of your image and saves the file [...]