Re: gnews-hows it going?

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

> Less mature codebase I grant you wholeheartedly. That's why I find
> this particularly exciting - it's something new, the whole style of
> declarative user interface with some procedural code interleaved, using
> a standard data exchange format (XML). 
> At least I haven't seen that done anywhere before (I'd appreciate links
> or references if someone knows of something like this).

  Except for the data format, that's sound a lot like uil in Motif. But
I'm not an expert in UI building tools :-\

> Once the system is really up to speed, I'm planning to rewrite a couple
> of gnome apps as demonstrations of the productivity. Unless someone
> has some apps they really need in which case I might use those as
> benchmark cases here.

  I'm not sure it's the best way to convince people. If you want people
to switch you need to exhibit new capabilities, like scripting, ease of
prototyping, integration with application builders (no compile phase),
etc ... Or new kind of applications difficult to build in a more static
way, imagination is your friend !

Daniel

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