Shuttleworth to hire developers for Gnome, KDE, QT

[pt123]

Not sure why this doesn't seem to be posted here but this is the biggest Ubuntu news in sometime:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubunt...inux_community

That's about to change. Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced in his blog that Canonical will be "hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality." "Those desktop experiences ideas" are Ubuntu's design ideas. Shuttleworth recently said he wanted the Linux desktop to be better than the Mac's interface. He's now putting his money behind this idea.

Mark's blog
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/162

I am really excited about this, and can see Ubuntu and Linux for Desktop becoming more popular if this works out.

[zmjjmz]

Yay.

[smartboyathome]

I think this is great. Mark is really starting to contribute to Ubuntu's core OSS in general. Go Mark!

[EdThaSlayer]

Mark Shuttleworth is the messiah! Something must have send this prophet down to this planet. Maybe, one foretold the coming of an evil operating system that would leave people in debt and created the anti-evil, Mr.Shuttleworth. Just wanted to tell a story, basically, keep it going Mark.

[myusername]

awesome

[mrsteveman1]

It has been funny to watch fanatics react to this announcement, blasting him and ubuntu in general for the most ridiculous reasons. Ubuntu makes it too easy to use linux! Everything is perfectly fine, nothing to see here, move along!

The truth is, X11 needs serious work, and the distro as a whole could benefit from attention to detail and work on usability. Things can only get better if more people are actively working to improve it.

[SunnyRabbiera]

But maybe Cannonical would be better as a sponsor though to them, as opposed to taking in its own team that will only work on Ubuntu implementation.

[EdThaSlayer]

But maybe Cannonical would be better as a sponsor though to them, as opposed to taking in its own team that will only work on Ubuntu implementation.

By doing this Canonical is not only helping Ubuntu, it's also helping the Linux world in general. Remember, they contribute to KDE,and GNOME by doing this.

[kpkeerthi]

I love this man for what he's doing for linux!

[airjaw]

Awesome.. this is like 50% of the complaints we see..the UI and KDE/Gnome etc etc integration with Ubuntu definitely needs work.
Can't wait to see what Ubuntu looks like in 5 years.