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On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 13:14 +0100, dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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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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We can call it what ever we want. |
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> > Overview |
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> > === |
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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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> > === |
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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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The goal is to make the modification so simple that my grandmother can use it and as well as it seeming proffessional and easy to use. |
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> > Desktop Environments - Why GNOME? |
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> > === |
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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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Its also got most of the major companies backing it aswell as the best |
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accessabile and inclusive applications around. |
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> > End Product |
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> > === |
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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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> > === |
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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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There is some work for 2.7/.8 being done so that gconf settings can be |
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rolled out over the network. |
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> [...] |
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> > Gentoo Desktop - The First Step |
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> > === |
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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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Well, if this project was a sucess and went ahead, this could allow |
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Gentoo to become a prefered and major platform for educational and |
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enterprise computing. |
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> - how should it be integreated/handled by gentoo |
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For the project itself (initally), we keep it localised as a gdr-project |
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untill we have ran some trials on the system structure. |
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As for infransture, we keep the customised desktop componenet away from |
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the main tree, in its own cvs rep. |
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If/when the project comes more mainstream, we can offer a stage/livecd |
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along with the rest of gentoos releases. |
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We should also release as often as the mainline gentoo releases to keep |
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version numbering in sync as well as the improvments in the mainline. |
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Comments and suggestions? |
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~James |
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