Hi all, I decided to change to GNOME (as a desktop user) 10 months ago (used fluxbox). Most of the people I know use KDE. My decision was rather philosophical than technical. AFAIK GNOME is the official GNU desktop environment. If I'm gonna help, it will be definitely here :). Well, I've read almost all the suggestions I've found on the gnome-love's wiki and developer.gnome.org site. It might looks like I'm going too fast but I just want to take another approach as to learning GNOME as a whole (very different to "at once") rather than writing a basic application with libgnome/ui or with libglade as many tutorials suggest. So I first want to get the "overview" of the architecture. (yes there is a tutorial on this topic, I've skimed it [1] ). I've attached a graphic I found describing the dependencies of the architecture. I have a few questions about it: 1) Is it up to date ? If not, can anyone point me to an updated one ? 2) Suppose I want to write an application which creates some file and put "hello world" in it. I could do it using Bonobo or GnomeVFS separately, is that right ? 3) If I can do what is described above or something alike, was it a "coincidence", or it's how the development team thinks about the architecture (i.e. giving developers more than a way of doing things) ? 4.1) How will that graphic be like the next years ? 4.2) Where is the development team aiming at in the long term ? 4.3) What are the most difficult problems right now on the architecture if any ? Those are some questions I couldn't guess from reading the documents I read and the graphic here attached. Maybe I'd know their answers (4.x in particular) if I was a developer :/ I've also read about Orbit2 and Bonobo but I think I'm gonna get more in depth to them as I need it. I'm trying to learn the "what"s and "where"s of GNOME instead of the "how"s. So if someone can help me, it will be appreciated. New suggestions are welcome! cheers arkaino. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/platform-overview/platform-overview.html -- <!-- http://arkaino.blogspot.com -->
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