in two years time or so

[Bo Rosén]

Where are we then?
Just curious how people believe our beloved Gnome will change over time.
I don't know much about what is planned for either the kernel or gnome, and as far as the kernel goes - I probably wouldn't understand much of it anyway. :-)
I'm thinking about the desktop mostly.

kernel 2.8.x ?
I've no idea what is going on here but steadily improved hardware support should proabably be a safe bet? Something to do with dual kernel cpus I hear mentioned everyday now?

Gnome 3.x
Lots of incremental improvements, of course - too many to mention probably.
Mono, Beagle, Dbus, Hal et co have matured a bit. What will this mean for us? What are the cool things starting to happen with Beagle 2?
Any other exciting things waiting for us that noone has thought of yet?

[ubuntu_demon]

two years is a lot of time.

the next ubuntu(october) probably will have mono,beagle,dashboard

In a while we'll see the real strengths of xorg like luminosity :
see : http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog

[MaZiNgA]

My thoughts on the future:

-We will have Full 3D Desktop fully rendered by OpenGL, I don't know if Gnome will still be there...I hope it will

-As for the eternal packaging problem, it will have been solved as DEB will rule over RPM at all linux distros and Autopackage will merge perfectly with the dpkg structure. :D

-We will pay much more attention to voice-commanded linux and voice-to-text programs.

-We'll get some free version of cedega! uhmmm I don't know how, somehow..! :p

[TravisNewman]

-We'll get some free version of cedega! uhmmm I don't know how, somehow..! :p
You already can! Compile it from CVS, or use a packages compiled from CVS

[arctic]

in two years time or so... where will we be?

well, i will be on hawaii, enjoying my spare time. i hope. ;)

[bored2k]

In two years Apple will become The iPOD Company and GNOME/KDE will be fighting senator Palpatine's evil Republican Army [aka Windows OS].

[az]

The software is irrelevant. The question is what impact free and open source software will have an on the software marketplace.

I am certain that whatever software I am running in 2007, it will be free to use, to inspect the source code, to change and redistribute the source code.


Even if I have to just use a console and have to use an old dot-matrix printer.

[poofyhairguy]

Where are we then?
Just curious how people believe our beloved Gnome will change over time.

I might be in minority, but I hope to see more eye candy! Some wobble wobble, some thing like the "genie effect" for minimizing, moving backrounds like enlightenment....


Or if not, I'd like to see a Gnome Web broswer come around that is faster and better then firefox...

[somuchfortheafter]

I might be in minority, but I hope to see more eye candy! Some wobble wobble, some thing like the "genie effect" for minimizing, moving backrounds like enlightenment....


Or if not, I'd like to see a Gnome Web broswer come around that is faster and better then firefox...

if so check this out
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
looks promising

[benplaut]

You already can! Compile it from CVS, or use a packages compiled from CVS

i'm intrigued... where can you get the CVS? I google'd it and can't seem to find anything :-(

[TravisNewman]

i'm intrigued... where can you get the CVS? I google'd it and can't seem to find anything :-(
http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=cedegacvs

[kassetra]

I think we'll finally have either Adobe or Macromedia (ha! or both!) convinced of the benefit of releasing their products for Linux as well as Windows and Mac.

Once that happens - many more doors will open for Linux on the desktop.