Re: The NEW gnome-terminal!

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> writes:
> On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 21:14, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Bear in mind that our accessibility work on GTK+ itself was 
> > completed almost a full year ago, and that our implementation code
> > for ATK is entirely externalized in GAIL.
> 
> gtk+ was already late a year ago. Look at the mail archives, and you'll
> see that it should have been released long ago.
> 

Just to clarify, I was talking about the desktop (panel, etc.) not
platform/GTK.

A delay of GTK 2's magnitude has to come from dozens of sources; all
the major pieces took too long (TreeView, TextView, GObject, even
accessibility, etc.), there were too many smaller features added, and
key personnel got yanked onto other tasks on various unplanned
occasions. Some of the delays were deliberate, some were not. Each
individual delay cause was a drop in the overall bucket. ;-)

300,000 lines of productized code were written - that's just a
mind-blowing quantity of code, how any of us thought it'd happen on
the original schedule is an interesting question.

Owen is going to postmortem the whole thing at GUADEC, personally I'm
curious to hear what he has to say:
 http://www.guadec.org/callforpapers/abstracts.php?title=Looking%20back%20at%20GTK%2B-2.0

Havoc