{"id":16,"date":"2007-04-19T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/a-big-gnome-announcement\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:15:07","slug":"a-big-gnome-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/a-big-gnome-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big GNOME Announcement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess there is a big GNOME announcement today at noon Eastern Time today.  On IRC, people were trying to guess what it could be.  Here are some of the ideas, which are all very funny:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> the board decided to release gnome 2.20 as gnome 3.0<\/li>\n<li>we are migration gnome desktop to web 2.0 on google<\/li>\n<li>they are passing the power to a supreme chancellor\n<ul>\n<li>to start the clone war\n<ul>\n<li>jeff has passed to the dark side<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>GNOME will become the default environment for Macintosh<\/li>\n<li>GNOME will be the successor of the vista GUI<\/li>\n<li>The HIG was a huge mistake and we&#8217;re switching the button order back<\/li>\n<li>we are going back to the old gnome stone logo<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;re releasing GTK+ 3.0\n<ul>\n<li>with support for Qt as a scripting language?\n<ul>\n<li>QScript, actually<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>there won&#8217;t be widgets anymore, the whole desktop is a large interactive SVG<\/li>\n<li>GNOME switches to windows as the target platform<\/li>\n<li>all applications are now required to have notification area icons<\/li>\n<li>all applications will now be 50% transparent by default<\/li>\n<li>all applications should be inside an applet<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;re adopting the ms office 2007 ribbon everywhere<\/li>\n<li>we migrate our documentation system to .doc<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re changing our name for trademark reasons to &#8220;Dwarf&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>we are changing our name to GMAE because it&#8217;s a DOUBLE ACRO-BACKRO-NYM<\/li>\n<li>Nautilus is getting support for animated desktop backgrounds<\/li>\n<li>Eazel comes back to life, as well as Eazel services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Edit 4\/19 @ 2:15 pm ET:<\/strong> Oh my.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/a-big-gnome-announcement\/#comments\">comments<\/a> are great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess there is a big GNOME announcement today at noon Eastern Time today. On IRC, people were trying to guess what it could be. Here are some of the ideas, which are all very funny: the board decided to release gnome 2.20 as gnome 3.0 we are migration gnome desktop to web 2.0\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/a-big-gnome-announcement\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}