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James William Dumay <i386@××××××××.org> said: |
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> Yeah, I sat down and thought about it some more. Heres what I have come |
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> up with. I welcome flames, comments and changes to the document. |
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ok, below are my comments |
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> Gentoo Desktop |
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The name cannot be Gentoo Desktop, there is already an official gentoo desktop |
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project. |
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> Overview |
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> The purpose of the "Gentoo Desktop" to to provide a different and Customized |
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> version of the vanilla desktop environment. The desktop will be a |
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> modification of not only applications and Desktop Environment, but small |
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> changes in the Gentoo core, to raise the level of usability and improve ease |
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> of use. |
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ok, why not |
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> Target Audience |
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> "Hobbyist" users coming from other distributions, such as RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc. |
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> Small to Medium Enterprise Desktop Roll outs |
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> Educational Institutions (Universities, Collages, Secondary and Grade |
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> Schools) |
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the goals are missing : is it just coolness, or security? polishness? |
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professionalism? ease of use? etc. redhat is polished, professional, but not |
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the easiest to use, for instance. |
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> Desktop Environments - Why GNOME? |
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I'll cut the rest : for me gnome is NOT the dominant desktop environment. KDE is |
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a lot more widely used, more powerfull, more integrated, has more extensions. |
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> End Product |
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> The end product will be a Gentoo Desktop Livecd and Documentation for installation and configuration of the system. User would boot into a preconfigured and polished GNOME Environment. |
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> Customisation rundown |
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> A quick rundown on the type of customisation for for future discussion. |
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> Base System |
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> - Some kind of "Kernel Profile" with additional device modules using Genkernel or similar tool. |
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> - Hardware detection and configuration scripts and services. |
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that part is going to be done anyway in the core. |
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> - Tools for rolling out system and desktop configuation settings. |
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same, I think this should go mainstream |
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> Gentoo Desktop - The First Step |
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> Milestone 1 |
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> - Report on the Applcation and Services needed on Desktop System |
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> - System Services - Hardware Detection Services, File/Print Sharing, Printing, etc |
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> - Applcations - Office Productivity Tools, Internet Tools, Gaming, etc |
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> - Decide on the appropriate virtuals and USE flags needed for user customization of the desktop. |
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> - Create gentoo-desktop-x86-2004.0 profile based on the decisions made. |
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> - Build system with new profile and report on system usability from an end users perspective, noting specific issues to be discuss and delt with in Milestone 2. |
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this is a good way to do it. Maybe we should decide before that, |
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- do we need/want that |
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- how should it be integreated/handled by gentoo |
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dams |
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