One small step for Google, another for “free”. At Mountain View, we do not want to forget the free software and its flagship operating system: Linux. That is why initiatives giant search engines are proliferating in the area. Proof of this involvement: the recent adaptation of gadgets Google (weather, agenda, aggregator…) and a semblance of Google “Desktop” free operating system. “To adapt to Linux Gadgets, we did not want to just get to the final offer, we also wanted to allow everyone to tinker code.
For this project, promoting transparency and motivate the developer community is equally important for us to serve our users, “says a ticket Jim Zhuang, software engineer at Google. Until then, these mini-applications that could not be displayed on the Web (iGoogle), Windows and Mac OS. But with this software license issued in Apache and open source version 0.9.3 available, they are now compatible with a third platform and systems with graphical interfaces QT and GTK +, which offer a sidebar similar to Google Desktop for Windows. As the developers, they will not have to delve into a new application-programming interface (API) and can now develop a single gadget for the three environments.
Jun 17