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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:25:32 -0700
From: Elizabeth Coolbaugh <cool@rdnzl.eklektix.com>
To: Linux Weekly News <lwn@rdnzl.eklektix.com>
Subject: Gnome notes


I got to the GNOME talk, by Miguel de Icaza, ten minutes late.  I
don't believe I missed anything too critical.  From the portion I
was at, this was Miguel's standard introduction to GNOME talk, though
obviously it was based on the GNOME 1.0 which was announced later
today.

The most interesting to me was the planned future of GNOME, which
includes Gnumeric, something called Achutung, which was never
described, a calendar manager, etc., palm pilot integration (he
mentioned they are taking donations of Palm Pilots, particularly the
newer ones) and CORBA support via patches provided to the developers
of all the major tools.  There won't be a GNOME-specific editor,
instead there will be support for existing editors.  He said Bonobo
was finally starting to look good, so they would be moving
applications to it.  I also heard some pessimistic comments about
Bonobo, the GNOME document model, so I guess we'll have to wait and
see.  GNOME 1.0 works within the file manager, which is based on
midnight commander.  Under the next version, it won't need to do that, 
now that CORBA support is available.  A new file manager will be
written as well, one that takes code and ideas from mc, but is not
strictly based on it.

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