What Would You Like To Hear About Next?
Thu, 2007-03-01 21:58 — purserj
With the success of the Open Graphics and Open Gaming Round Tables I'm keen to see the format continue.
What would you like to hear about? Who would you like to hear from? Let us know.
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What about something on Open
What about something on Open developer tools - eg. Eclipse (+ all the variants such as RadRails), KDevelop, Glade etc. Could also do something on the various Linux GUI programming paradyms like GTK, QT, wxWidgets, wxPython etc etc. Could be good - could be also quite boring for most listeners who aren't developers. I'll leave it up to you :-)
Interesting
Personally, nano and vi do me quite nicely :)
I'll look a little further and see what I can build out of this. Thanks
development environments
James,
Getting down and dirty with the nuts and bolts of developmental environments would be interesting, but throwing the different environment pros and cons into the air to see what falls where, would be far more interesting. There are a stack of development suites, though to be fair, I personally stop at config/make/install with a touch of the odd "alien" conversion thrown in, so I probably would preference some form of an "X" development suite, as I don't play well on a single environment.
From display and multimedia language perspectives, I always thought that Gtk and Gnome were part and parcel of the same thing, but recently playing with the Xubuntu Xfce/Gtk-2 desktop environment, and coming from KDE and Gnome, I find they are not, and that Xfce using the Gtk-2.0 base, has a lot more going for it than the full and possibly overloaded features of Gnome and KDE, even on recent fully-featured hardware. Just exactly how-many graphical environments do we now have upon Linux? I'm assuming Qt, Gtk and GStreamer, but I notice a lot of other apparent multimedia envelopes/pipelines materializing lately. Apparently, Gtk is stripped-down, mean and lean, yet is still delivering better results than their much larger competitors. What's happening there? Is Xfce/Gtk-2's lightweight-nature enabling more calculations, more diverse problem-solving, or what? What is the gossip on Qt? Just how good is this GStreamer pipeline multimedia thing anyway? I would really like to hear what is the gossip on the differently evolving paths the multimedia environments are traveling down, and what are the individual multimedia envelopes/pipes etcetera Projects doing to address the impost of HDCP/HDMI etcetera? Given the speed and complexity that these multimedia-foundation technologies develop at, we really need to be kept up-to-speed on the differing technology's developments and responses to the emergent hardware-impost specifications. Would you be game enough to compare the individual-merits of the respective graphical environments and bases? Probably, the consideration of their future responses is of much more relevance at this time, given the impost of HDCP-HDMI, etcetera on their path mechanism and openess.
Barry.