pfremy I think your reading of my interview is heavily coloured by your premade opinion. While there are issues in Nautilus as my interview did illustrate your are blowing these issues out of proportion.

First of all the mime support in Nautilus is and as far as I know has always been tied in with the rest of GNOME, but Nautilus as the filemanager is the most major user of the mime-system, which was why it was covered as a ‘Nautilus’ issue.

As for the file access we have something called gnome-vfs in GNOME that does the same thing as kioslaves in KDE.

Nautilus don’t have a file dialog, and I can’t even see why you would want one in a filemanager.

The separate theme handling was a mistake, but has now been 99% fixed, the two minor details left will be taken care of before GNOME 2.2 as the interview clearly states.

As for its own icon management I am not sure what exactly you refer to, but I don’t think there was ever a duplication,
if anything you could argue that the functionality was misplaced inside Nautilus or eel instead of being placed in a more core GNOME library. On the other hand this is how we develop new stuff in GNOME. We include them it outer libs or applications and as they mature and prove usefull we migrate them further down in the toolchain.

As for full of bugs. Well a vast majority of the bugs in Nautilus bugzilla are leftovers from the Eazel days. They used bugzilla as their primary work tool which means there are tons of bugs in bugzilla with things like ‘maybe we should do this instead of this’, ‘wouldn’t removing one pixel
from x make it fit better than y’. Such type of bugzilla usage is not how volunteer based free software projects do it, thus the number of bugs is significantly smaller.

As for slow, well yes it is slower than windows explorer, but it is faster than Konqueror…..

As for most of the future features are things that KDE already have. Yes, some of these features you already have, yet some like the video preview stuff is ugly hacks. And there are other things in Nautilus and GNOME where you implemented them after us, SVG support comes to mind as an example.

As for the money use of Eazel, it is wrong to claim that all of it went into Nautilus development. A large part of it went to developing the services part of Eazel and their marketing deparments. I am not saying that money use at Eazel where perfect, but claiming that all their money went into Nautilus development is rather blatant desinformation.

As for lacking a ‘large shared vision’, I think you are mistaken. But truly we have had more discussions about these issues in GNOME than you have had in KDE, but I think this is mostly because KDE have almost no power over these issues, you have put yourself in a position where most important design decisions are handed down to you by TrollTech.
In GNOME we do discuss more such issues because we, unlike you, are masters of our own destiny.

Putting finishing touches on a new interview I just done, think it will be rather popular when John puts it up on linuxorbit next week.

I made myself a bit usefull today and made a website for Gnonlin today.
Gnolin is our library for nonlinear video editors and it is starting to be usefull so I felt a webpage was in order :).

Some people have asked me what is happening with my .au workpermit application. Well ACS said I would get a reply in about 10 weeks, 8 weeks have now past. So hopefully I can move onto the next stage within the next 3 weeks.

nymia if you want to work on SVG rendering I suggest you look at the rsvg library in GNOME cvs. It was originally made to render SVG icons in Nautilus but has lately been updated to render SVG for lots of stuff and its rendering speed and capabilites has also been improved. It only depends on libart so it is also very versatile and portable.

Started looking today for some linux software that will help
me convert EPS files to SVG. Haven’t found any yet, anyone have any suggestions?

Got Red Hat 8.0 installed on my machine last night at it is very sweet! I needed to use both the networking and X windows config tool last night and they booth looked great and worked well.

Only thing I missed was the GNOME2 menu editing stuff, which was not included, but I guess it came into GNOME CVS at to late a date to include it.

On the GStreamer front things are progressing well. Wim is working on a new scheduler which hopefully will let us leave scheduling issues behind for a good while. Ronald is busy on getting gst-record ready for a release. He is also debugging the asf video demuxer that Owen wrote. Thomas is hacking on Dave/Dina at the moment and also has some work work he needs to catch up to, yet he seems to be able to sneak in doing cleanups and fixes to GStreamer somewhere in between it all ;). David Lehn is has been working on the debian packages and python bindings lately and David Schleef seems to have more little coding projects going on that I thought humanly possible. Steve seems to be a little busy getting settled back in New Zealand, but hopefully he will be back soon as we need to get libgstplay useable for the mozilla plugin that David Schleef is doing.
Christian Meyer is still hard at work on the C++ bindings, while lot of code has been commited they are still designing and re-designing stuff to make sure the bindings are easy to use and also integrates well with the rest of the gtkmm stuff. Haven’t seen Zeshan in a while online, hope he has gotten into trouble for his political articles back home. And last but not least (of the most active contributors) we have Andy who has just released the first and latest gst-editor before packing his rucksack to go to Africa for two years, and who will be missed while he is away. Hopefully he remember to send us his contact info so it is possible to go and visit him while there.

On my own front I need to give myself a kick in the ass and learn how to use thomas bitches system so I can be of more assistance in the release process again, especially important since I want to help bring about a much higher release frequency on GStreamer.

I went up to northern Norway last week for a short 3 day assignment doing a very straightforward job. Well as thing tend to go it wasn’t very straightforward afterall. Seems that one of the cdroms with the software was damaged which it took me two days to realize as the damage didn’t show itself in regards to the reading from the cdrom, it first showed its
ugly head when the installer was trying unarchiving the software.
Spent the next two days there waiting for new cdrom to arrive which it turned out it didn’t. So now I have to go back up there tommorow to actually do the job. Of course during these 4 days I had to continually answer questions and try and explain why things was as they where. Sometimes I feel so mentally tired due to stress factors such as these that I just don’t know what to do.

It also turns out that the support representative I had to strugle with up there wasn’t indian as I supposed due to his severely limited english skills (which added to my mental anguish up there), he was french….

This weekend hasn’t been very relaxing either. When getting back I had to stress around on friday to get some administrative tasks done at work, go to a doctor to see if we can discover why I have been suffering a bad cough for 3 weeks non-stop now and last but not least drive 4 hours to get to a weekend of horse riding with some people from work.
Of course I couldn’t stay for the full duration as I had to get back in order to attend a party 3 of my friends was having to celebrate their 30th birthdays this year.

Today I have to get a new GNOME summary out and I should probably book an airplane and hotel to go back up north,
but I don’t think I can even come close to find the motivation to get the airplane this evening instead of taking the one tommorow morning. I anyone complains I just think I tell them that it was their own fault for not confirming that the new cdroms had arrived as they promised to do.

Argh!!! By Odins missing eye, who in this cursed world decided that having large support department in India was a good idea!! Can it really be cost effective to have a bunch of people whose mastery of the english language is comperable to a scandinavian kindergarten kids…..

Why me! Why me!

Hmm, made a little mistake today, managed to send out the summary announcing art.gnome.org to be up before checking if star and aldug had actually managed todo so after I had to leave for the airport yesterday. Hopefully they get it going today to make me look a little less the fool :)

Currently spending time surfing waiting for a 200MB patch to download so I can do what I went here to do :(

When you have lots of time like this you start reading a lot of articles and discussions one usually don’t bother with reading. The United Linux release being one of them, and one repeated issue debated in that regard is the Caldera/SCO rename. Some people seem to argue that using the SCO name and focusing on that product portfolio is a great move because there are so many SCO customers out there and
Caldera/SCO got such a nice VAR network from the SCO aquisition. My question is then is, if a) there are so many SCO user out there interesting continuing being that for the foreseeable future and even wanting to increase their use of SCO and b) there are all these great SCO VAR’s out there who brings in so much business; why did the original SCO go down the drain and end up selling these assets to Caldera?

To answer my own question above. a) most of these customers are using SCO for systems which will not use SCO when eventually they are replaced and b) That incredible VAR network isn’t all that the marketing people pretend it is.

Conclusion Caldera/SCO isn’t the wave of the future, it is just a gang of people milking a dead cow for its last drops of milk.

nymia if you are interested in working on Flash you should check out libswfdec which is being developed by David Schleef. It is a LGPL flash decoding library that already works very well for non-interactive flash animations.
You find it at Comedi.org ftp site.

You can find David online in the #gstreamer irc channel on irc.openprojects.net using the nick ‘ds’.

Long boring day at work. One day job that ends up taking 3 is very frustrating. Thinks seems to finally work now however so hopefully when I leave today I can fell secure that things are in a better state than when I arrived.

Discovered yesterday that cinamod is working on a very cool little sideproject atm. Think it will be my main story for the next GNOME summary :)

I also find the Apple Rendezvouz stuff interesting, and I guess I am not alone as I discovered that julian is already on the Rendezvous mailing list. Maybe we will get Rendezvous support in Gabber just like in the apple iChat.

We released the new 0.4.1 version of GStreamer last evening.
Getting more and more proud of this release as I see that the bug reports that has come in afterwards are relativly obscure. Not that we shouldn’t fix obscure bugs, but I take it as a sign that we are starting to iron out the most important issues. Think it was also telling that the two people we needed to help build GStreamer on IRC last night was using MacOS X and Gentoo (not to say anything bad about Gentoo, but I do feel it says something that 9 out of 10 people which has problems building GStreamer on Linux seems to be using it, considering the relative market share of Gentoo I think that hints at something.)

That Jacob was able to build and use GStreamer of MacOSX last night with only minor tweaks makes me very happy cause it is something of a proof of concept that we have managed to keep things portable.

I added icons, desktop files and code to add appicons to most of the in-house GStreamer applications yesterday. Since I don’t know shit about about coding (I have a degree in Marketing and Finance) it took me some time and help, but I did it. Anyway I think such smalls things adds a lot of polish and makes thing look a lot more mature.

Had to log of early last night and go to my mothers place to feed both myself and the cat. I am house and cat sitting this week :).
Anyway this led to me watching a television documentary on the Norwegian emigration to Netherland during the late 1700 and early 1800. Rather interesting, especially the part about what things those who returned brought back in terms of cultural impulses and linguistics. For instanse there is a saying in Norway that goes like ‘Jeg skjoenner ikke et doeyt’, which means ‘I don’t undersand a bit (of what your saying)’. That last part of that saying, ‘doeyt’, is a word that has had no special meaning to me, but it turns out that it is the name of a dutch coin that is worth next to nothing. Another expression is ‘hulter til bulter’ which is a term used when something is a mess, seems this is also a term from that term and is actually a dutch term. There where other terms mentioned to, mostly nautical expressions.
(Over half the people who emigrated did so to become sailors in the Dutch fleet.)

Anther important thing the documentary reminded me of is how
important part of Norwegian history emigration is. Being a land of extreme weather and relativly little farmable lands has through our history lead to a lot of people emmigrating from time to time. This goes as far back as the settling of Iceland, Greenland, Shetland Islands and attempted settling of North America by the vikings. To the emigration to Netherlands this program described and most recently with half the population moving to North America during the colonial era (with a large percentage ending up in Minesota).