Re: Thoughts on the future of gnome

[Tor Lillqvist <tml novell com>]

On må, 2005-10-10 at 21:21 +0200, alan wrote:

> Is it likly that a windows version of gnome (even a basic, light
> version) will be available when vista is released?

No. I don't really know what you mean by a "basic, light version of
GNOME". But I am rather certain that it would make no sense whatsoever
to run Nautilus, for instance, on Windows. If you want GNOME, run GNOME
(on Unix).

Some GNOME *applications*, like Evolution, and maybe Evince, make sense
on Windows. Other free non-GNOME applications like OpenOffice, AbiWord,
GIMP, InkScape already are available on Windows. Other applications like
media players and various smaller "applets" already have lots of
equivalents on Windows. They might not be free (as in Speech), but the
end-users rarely care. If they do, they already run GNOME on Linux.

--tml