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. [The End]