yea because google is known for their extensive ruby usage

Google no, but Iliya yes (Google acquired PostRank).

I see the line between television and commercial blurring so much [more than it already is] that everything is grey. Shows wont exist anymore, there will just be "characters" with shows, movies, music albums, etc orbiting around them.

you cant pimp the startup that way

Not specific to the GNOME environment, but some people might want to check out dzen if they are interested in piping CLI commands to their desktop.

http://sites.google.com/site/gotmor/dzen

typical hacker news: someone says something that someone else takes too literally and subsequent blog posts/arguments/flame wars ensue

A piece of advice: before posting, consider carefully whether you add something to the discussion. If you don't, maybe you shouldn't.

Gotta drive dat blog traffic.

On a Thursday?

A file manager I have been writing in Vala:

http://i.imgur.com/WulQk.png

Id like to add a "shelf" at some point, but the first priority is getting the details view on the right of the window fleshed out.

Re: Node.js implementation

my buddy has been hacking on this and he says the benefit of being able to troll on the server the same way you troll the client is a huge benefit.

True, but at the same time it's no match to the TIT (Troll In Time) compiler in cases where every ounce of performance counts.

Does anyone know what effect this will have on the clutter project?

MeeGo uses Qt rather than Clutter, so probably not much.

[n.b. I work for Intel on MeeGo]

MeeGo Netbook uses Clutter. It also supports Qt applications. Other products from our partners have used Clutter and I would expect them to use Clutter in the future.

Thanks for the correction.

I had been under the assumption that switching all the various GUIs over to Qt was part of the reason why MeeGo came to be in the first place... That is, the point was to harmonize mobile Linux by settling on common components even if that means abandoning some work (e.g. rpm packages instead of Maemo's apt, Qt instead of GTK+).

If MeeGo didn't even accomplish that, I have to question why Maemo and Moblin were ever merged. The two projects would have probably fared better on their own, without the uncertainty of the MeeGo reset. Now both lost their momentum and have been painted as part of the "MeeGo flop", undeservedly or not.

I know you cant speak on behalf on Intel, but pretty much the "is supported by the open source community. Its development is sponsored by Intel." on http://clutter-project.org still stands ?

I did just this for a presentation:

https://bitbucket.org/mdg/cohpy-hips-presentation/src/89b3d2...