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While this is outside of the scope of the foundation, why would gnome want to move away from gconf, now that most apps are using it?

What has gnome achieved and what is still difficult for a newcomer.

I actually second this question. Maybe a bit more general: which companies and/or organizations would you like to get involved (e.g. EU, IBM, HP [for real this time], ...)?

Who is hell telling you sino is prefix of China? If you do so, that must because you are some silly janpanese.

Who is hell telling you sino is prefix of China? If you do so, that must be you are some silly janpanese.

I think so, sino is a very bad word for Chinese people.

Why would this question be relevant to potential foundation board members? Remember that the foundation board does not set the technical direction of the project -- instead it handles more mundane things like trademark issues, interacting with the advisory board, etc.

You should be able to get a good feel for the kinds of things the foundation board does by reading some of the minutes.

To expand on my earlier question: if you see GNOME integrating a high-level-language framework into its core, which do you see as the best candidate (mono, java, or other) and why?

Kde starts many many daemons and little helper processes when it starts.
Now, when the KDE desktop is loaded this doesn't make any difference, but its noticable when you start a KDE program in another desktop.

Its a KDE "problem" and nothing that GNOME can do to fix.

There sure is a gap between gnome and kde worlds and points of view. There first was some licensing issues, and now technical ones.

One day or another, every user has asked himself whether he would use gnome or kde. In fact, this is one of the first thing a newcomer ask, and obviously there is no right or wrong answer here.

Same thing goes for an organization or a developper.

Both worlds can continue to live separate lives happily, or they can be brought together closer from each other. Whatever happens will mean some trades for every one.

I'd like to hear his feelings about this (old) subject, what cost he thinks we should pay, in one way or another, and why the benefits would be greater than the tradeoff.

libc is already loaded into memory, in a pure Gnome environment QT isn't loaded at all until you come to load a QT app. You get hit with exactly the same effect if you run a Gnome app in an otherwise pure KDE environment. Here's a clue for you learn how things work before attempting to insult people.

with a bit of luck everyone will say a) all this making other apps look like gnome apps is the wrong directon, firefox will never be a gnome app, nor will OOo unless they actually use GTK etc. rather than XUL and whatever the OOo toolkit is.

With all the work being done on Firefox and Gecko, running the CVS stuff with patches for it actually feels more native then Epiphany to the end user. Work has been ongoing in Firefox to use the native (and new) gnome file chooser, use the GTK stock buttons, and so on, and it already follows the HIG at least decently well... Firefox 1.1 or 1.2 really should feel more native then where Epiphany is today, and hopefully when that happens Firefox will be reconsidered to replace Epiphany. Firefox is becoming a big name in Windows and Linux, and if its included with Gnome it makes everyone's life a whole lot easier, assuming they are following the HIG which they are working torwards.

Feels more native than Epiphany? Pass your pipe over here please, I want some.

> WE (THE USERS) SHOULD VOTE THE MOST URGENT BUGS TO FIX, THEY ARE ALREADY IN BUGZILLA

In general, if something is truly important enough then someone will either find the time or resources to fix it. Developers are not your slaves or employees so they can not be forced to do whatever you want. Adding voting to bugzilla would suggest that they could.