Tuesday, October 11, 2005

recommended reading

by 11:30 tomorrow i'll be in san diego. i'm running around doing the usual "day before" getting rid routine. so i have no time to actually blog for real. but even if i did, i don't think i would; instead, i'd point people to the recent entries of kevin "ervin" ottens (>here and here>) and john palmieri (here) to see a really encouraging example of how things can work between the open source desktop projects.

i also spoke with ervin a bit about freedesktop.org the other day. well, actually i listened while he shared some perspective on it and i think he's got some great ideas on how to kick it up a notch.

if you are trying to build a cross desktop project (i dunno ... say for icons?) i'd really suggest taking a look at how ervin and john and the others involved with that set of technologies are doing their thing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aaron what you think about that ?
http://www.betterdesktop.org/welcome/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/davyd/155426.html

Gnome developers beginning to FUD again i guess.

Amaury Chamayou said...

Why exactly is that FUD ? They are doing usuability testing and publishing the results, that's great. It will potentially benefit KDE as well as Gnome, there's no reason to get angry, on the contrary.