Learn About Ximian and Gnome From Nat Friedman

This week's interview guest is Nat Friedman, co-founder and vice president of product development for Ximian. Nat is also co-chair of The Gnome Foundation, and an all-around nice guy. Post your questions (one per post, please) for Nat below. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated ones to him, and will post his answers (verbatim except for HTML formatting) within the next week.

Re:Gnu ROPE question

[Anonymous Coward]

This question made me quite curious as well. A google search [google.com] just results in lots of postings asking "Where'd it go?"

There's also a paper [hungry.com] and some slides [hungry.com]. So, I'll reiterate the question... where'd it go?

Re:Gnome sans-X?

[Anonymous Coward]

GTK+ 2.0 supports frame-buffer so IMO generic GNOME stuff like the excelent kick-ass panel should be easily portable to fb.
As long as they do not use anything other than gnome, like SDL and stuff.
(Maybe it compiles and runs un-modified?)

I don't know.

Re:When?

[nedrichards]

For OpenOffice.org it should be the upcoming 1.0 release. A GNOME shortcut icon and document thingamys should be done by then. The same should be true for KDE.