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By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:32:15 +0000

I so glad it was a success. Thanks Jono.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:06:49 +0000

This is great. I can’t imagine the many great apps that will be released in the future all thank’s to this week.

By: w1nGNUtz

w1nGNUtz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:57:29 +0000

Yep. I feel exactly the same. Work with .Net for 5 years and am planning soon to leave it and devote my energies to free software. Already started with translations on LP and soon will be starting my programming adventures in python. Maybe one day I live of it.

This week is really being amazing... thanks you all for all this!

By: Jesse van den Kieboom

Jesse van den Kieboom — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:23:29 +0000

I was wondering if it would be a cool idea to implement such a thing in an editor like gedit, instead of developing a separate application like Acire for that. It would be very easy to write a nice python plugin for gedit (which could be a Snippet in itself) to incorporate such a tool.

It would benefit from the integration of gedit in GNOME and its availability on almost every GNOME system. You can also immediately start programming (and gedit is a very beginners user friendly editor).

By: Daeng Bo

Daeng Bo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:17:03 +0000

But we want more.

Seriously, Quickly and the other development tools coming out are great. More great docs would be better, though.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:46:51 +0000

Another frustrated Java programmer here. Where do I get my hands on said materials?

By: Adam Dudczak

Adam Dudczak — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:44:35 +0000

Professional development in bare Swing nowadays is something really odd. There are tools which are using Swing as a foundation but simplifies a lot of things e.g. NetBeans RCP or Eclipse RCP. Those should be used.

You can also use more dynamic languages to develop desktop apps UIs e.g. Groovy, Ruby or even Jython .

But it still makes me think why PyGtk is so attractive, what about portability between different OS? I know that there is GTK for Windows but people would have install it, Java is installed on quite a huge number of machines.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:53:22 +0000

It is indeed exactly what we want!

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:10:56 +0000

Anything that makes for one less Swing app in the world gets MY approval.