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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: dams@×××.fr
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:19:09
Message-Id: 200308291418.48569.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop by dams@idm.fr
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4 Ok that somewhat explains what 'desktop' is... But what has the *discussion*
5 been discussing? :)
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7 On Friday 29 August 2003 02:06 pm, dams@×××.fr wrote:
8 > Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o> said:
9 > > Could someone summarize this thread please? I'm somewhat interested in
10 > > the discussion, but don't really have time to go through reading all 50
11 > > or so new messages... o.o;;
12 >
13 > summary attempt (please correct me if we still don't agree)
14 >
15 > desktop will handle the desktop component. It'll try to stick with vanilla
16 > desktops as much as possible, but provide good default, and uniformization
17 > when it's possible and non-intrusive. In all case, additions should be
18 > easily (un)pluggable.
19 >
20 > About non visible stuff, desktop will try to make things work out of the
21 > box. Ie, addapt config/default data so that they better interact with
22 > gentoo core system.
23 >
24 > Some questions to answer :
25 >
26 > - do we want X in desktop or in base or elsewhere? it seems we tend to put
27 > X in base, but not included in default system
28 >
29 > - should we have rules to decide if such modification will change the DE
30 > too much from vanilla state?
31 >
32 > - probably other things, but my head is in a bad state right now
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35 Luke-Jr
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