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The GNOME Journal, September Edition

Submitted by claus on Fri, 2005-09-16 06:04. GNOME

The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. It
features a look at GNOME's Summer of Code participation by Julien Gilli
and Akbar Pasha, Peer to Peer document collaboration with GOCollab by
Claus Schwarm and Martin Sevior, an introduction to the Banshee Music
Player by Ken VanDine, the description of a GNOME deployment in Austria
by Murray Cumming, Remote Desktop Administration using Vino by Marcus
Bauer, and notes on translating GNOME by Runa Bhattacharjee.

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Google summer of wasted opportunities

Submitted by foo on Sun, 2005-09-18 00:37.

Am I the only one who feels so underwhelmed by the summer of code efforts? I mean people actually worked on adding *features* to Rhythmbox??? Are you kidding?

I have a good Rhythmbox project, make it not suck ass! I mean how many years has rhythmbox been not really quite usable? It has never, ever succesfully imported my entire archive of music. Only recently did it stop crashing when it found a music file that wasn't supported by gstreamer. Tag editing, nope. Too hard.

Anyway, I guess I really don't give shit about rhythmbox but it does really irk me that google came to gnome and offered to pay for them to do whatever they wanted and they chose to work on silly obscure features when they could have done something really useful like:

Make gnome-vfs not suck! (especially with samba)
Make all gnome apps actually use gnome-vfs and make it easy for developers to do this. Right now about 1% of gnome apps can actually open a file on a network
Make gnome fast!
Bigtime Composite use and integration!
etc

Seriously. It makes me want to cry just what a stupid wasted opportunity the whole thing was.

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