Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts

[Luca De R. <pie...@li...>]

Il dom, 2003-11-09 alle 13:47, Elias Martenson ha scritto:
> True. It really does feel like everything has been done now has it? :-)
Mmh.. I don't think so. There are a LOT of apps the linux community is
missing. One example above all something like dreamweaver.

>  I think I could top gFTP in a matter of days
> by leveraging the enterprisedt FTP client library.
Nice, but is it really needed? Isn't gftp already doing a nice job?
I think duplication of efforts is to be avoided. 

> If you want to make an RSS reader, you could do that extremely quickly
> too since we have it all already, just need to slap a GUI on top of it.
> 
> I've also considered making a better "todo" application. A smal app that
> sits in the panel and lets to easily keep track of everything that I
> should do (need panel support for this one).
Well, evolution supports RSS and there is a gtodo app that does exactly
that.

> So, what useful stuff do we have in the Java world that we want to bring
> to the GNOME users?
For the moment I think there are already some good apps, maybe not
killer ones, but however:

      * Mark Howard wrote a nice app for Debian bugs tracking.I haven't
        tried it, but I saw his homepage and it seems it rocks:)
      * There are the gnome-postal, and cromagnon apps that still need a
        lot of love:),but I think the could become useful, cause AFAIK
        there are few Imap mail programs around.
      * There is snark which is a bittorrent client written in
        java-gnome, I've read some source code, and it's cool:) Users
        love applications like this if they can connect to a big network
        and share stuff...But again it still needs work.
      * A killer app would be some like dreamweaver (ambitiuous...maybe
        a jni for gtkglext?) ;) Or a modeler like blender, but with a
        usable interface... 
I won't make the list longer; My final point is that I think it's better
contribute improving some existing app like Tiago Cogumbreiro's one, or
the other ones I've mentioned than rewrite another implementation of an
existing app.

Luca.
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Luca De Rugeriis <pie...@li...>