Exact details of the theme changes have not been made public, as the current developer seeds for Snow Leopard still retain Apple’s existing Aqua theme. The new theme will likely involve tweaks to the existing design and perhaps a “flattening” of Aqua in-line with Apple’s iTunes and iPhoto interface elements.
Aequo writes “Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company’s main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a 50 multi-platform license per developer.”
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According to Fedora project leader Paul W. Frields, the next major version of the popular Linux distro will be codenamed Leonidas. The developers plan to improve boot time, integrate DeviceKit, add support for delta RPMs, and include KDE 4.2.
App Store wars getting heated… The developers of NJection Mobile are claiming that the people or developers from Trapster are posting invalid and fake reviews, as well as searching for reviews on websites, spamming them and writing phony, bogus reviews of the competing application.
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Modern web design is not possible without Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The flexibility of CSS allows web developers to create websites that load faster and are easier to update.
chromatic writes to tell us that O’Reilly has an interview with Guido van Rossum on the evolutionary process that gave us Python 3.0 and what is in store for the future. “I’d like to reiterate that at this point, it’s a very personal choice to decide whether to use 3.0 or 2.6. You don’t run the risk of being left behind by taking a conservative stance at this point. 2.6 will be just as well supported by the same group of core Python developers as 3.0. At the same time, we’re also not sort of deemphasizing the importance and quality of 3.0. So if you are not held back by external requirements like dependencies on packages or third party software that hasn’t been ported to 3.0 yet or working in an environment where everyone else is using another version. If you’re learning Python for the first time, 3.0 is a great way to learn the language. There’s a couple of things that trip over beginners have been removed.”
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An anonymous reader writes “SANS’ just-released list of the Top 15 most dangerous programming errors obscures the real problem with software development today, argues InfoWeek’s Alex Wolfe. In More Than Coding Mistakes At Fault In Bad Software, he lays the blame on PC developers (read: Microsoft) who kicked the time-honored waterfall model to the curb and replaced it not with object-oriented or agile development but with a ‘modus operandi of cramming in as many features as possible, and then fixing problems in beta.’ He argues that youthful programmers don’t know about error-catching and lack a sense of history, suggesting they read Fred Brooks’ ‘The Mythical Man-Month,’ and Gerald Weinberg’s ‘The Psychology of Computer Programming.'”
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Got To Get Me A Git writes “Distributed verison control systems (DVCS) seem to be the next big thing for open source software development. Many projects have already adopted a DVCS and many others are in the process of migrating. There are a lot of major advantages to using a DVCS, but the task of migrating from one system to another appears to be a formidable challenge. The Perl Foundation’s recent switch to Git took over a year to execute. The GNOME project is planning its own migration strategy right now after discovering that a significant majority of the project’s developers favor Git. Perhaps some of the projects that are working on transitions from other mainstream version control systems can pool their resources and collaborate to make some standardized tools and migration best practices documentation. Does such a thing already exist? Are any folks out there in the Slashsphere working on migrating their own project or company to a DVCS? I’d appreciate some feedback from other readers about what works and what doesn’t.”
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Google has released an early developer preview of Chrome 2.0, the next major version of the company’s open source web browser. The new version has improved rendering, several impressive user interface enhancements, and preliminary support for Greasemonkey scripts.
