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O'Reilly article on current GNOME optimisation work

Submitted by Uraeus on Wed, 2005-11-02 12:11. GNOME
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Jono Bacon have written a nice article on the O'Reilly network discussing the current set of optimisations work being done on GNOME. The article focuses on the work by Federico Mena-Quintero who started the effort with his work on speeding up the GNOME file chooser. Today this effort seems to be picking up speed with people such as Billy Biggs, Carl Worth and Behdad Esfahbod all working hard on various performance issues. In addition to that Nokia have sponsored some performance related work through their Maemo effort. Anyway, you find the article from Jono here and you can follow the optimisation effort live on Planet GNOME

Way to miss his point.

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-11-05 22:50.

Way to miss his point.

He's not saying that this should be an XFCE page or that anyone should even care about them. He is saying that there is no such thing as the "GNOME file chooser" there is a "GTK file chooser" that is used by GNOME, but that is not the same thing. Just as making optimizations to GCC might make GNOME faster, but it is unfair to call it the GNOME compiler. The point is: give credit where it is due. Incorporating somebody else's libraries into you project does not mean that you suddenly own those libraries.

Of course, since you seem to be a bit slow, I bet now you are going to post a reply wondering why people are obsessed with XFCE and what GCC has to do with GNOME news website.

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