Comments on I' Been to Ubuntu: Making Myself Clear About Ubuntu Development

That makes a lot of sense... I think a lot of Lin...

2010-03-12T06:34:05.394+07:00

That makes a lot of sense...

I think a lot of Linux users aren't even aware of pygtk, and wouldn't know where to begin when developing a Linux gui. Probably the web development tools are better known.

There's nothing wrong with pushing a particular toolkit. We're not inhibiting people from going out and doing QT development. However, Ubuntu is gtk based, and

Daengo, I agree with you. They should support th...

2010-02-24T11:19:07.221+07:00

Daengo,

I agree with you. They should support the developers.
Any way I started disliking ubuntu for making the UI better they are messing up the distro big time..
I like plain old debian :)

Vasudev, I agree that there are many ways to deve...

2010-02-22T16:50:58.342+07:00

Vasudev,

I agree that there are many ways to develop (including GTK# and others you don't mention). Canonical, though, has a favorite -- PyGTK -- which it decided on right after 4.10 came out. Shuttleworth likes Python. Why don't they say that?

Really, if you look at the development targets for 10.04, that's exactly what Ubuntu and Canonical are starting to do,

Well there are many possible ways you can develop ...

2010-02-22T14:35:49.240+07:00

Well there are many possible ways you can develop app for ubuntu to be more correct Linux distros. If you prefer using Gtk+ you can use either C C++ or Python (PyGTK) or Qt / PyQT PySIDE or even PyKDE. All this holds for all distributions of Linux.
They mention about packaging mainly because its important if you want your app to appear in ubuntu repository.