Thursday, March 04, 2004

What next for GNOME's user interface?

Useful Information Company: "Microsoft's XAML [the programming interface behind the Longhorn user interface] has a lot of people [competing with Microsoft] worried. Its advantage is to bring the ease of web page authoring and scripting into writing .NET application user interfaces. This makes immense sense. We have a desperate need for decent user interfaces, and the place where a large body of UI designers and programmers live and work at the moment is in web pages ... If GNOME is to be a serious contender on the enterprise desktop, and that is very much the intent, it must meet the challenge of XAML ... I believe the GNOME project and the open source desktop community at large can make a response to Microsoft. But we need to recognise a key economic constraint for would-be adopters. This constraint is developer time. Microsoft licensing and support is cheap compared to the time spent in creating applications. To get the cost of Linux desktop deployment down, we need to drive down the cost of application development."

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What next for GNOME's user interface?

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