Submission + - Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome
Miguel talks mainly about Mono 2.0 and
And even the Mozilla guys — the keynote we had here was done on a mac, every single Mozilla developer uses a Mac. And it's funny, they constantly attack Silverlight, they constantly attack Flash and then all of them use proprietary operating systems, they don't seem to have a problem doing it. And then they had the Guiness record thing for Firefox 3 and you went to the website and it had a flash map to show where people are downloading — so there definitely is a double standard here. And that's after all their claiming that you can do everything in AJAX — so they definitely don't "walk the walk".
Another topic is Miguel's suggestion to "refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop" using Moonlight.
To be realistic I don't think we can do absolutely everything that would take years. So if I would have my choice today I would probably rewrite the gnome panel completely with Moonlight. I wouldn't go as far as doing the file manager although I think it would be great to do a new file manager or improve Nautilus but it would be a lot of work.
It should be noted that Miguel has not been responsible for Gnome development for a long time, so don't take this as "plans for Gnome"."