Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop-research

From: Tom Hosiawa <tomek32@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Report of the desktop-research meeting.
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:31:36
Message-Id: 1074619859.7576.6.camel@newton.tomek.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Report of the desktop-research meeting. by foser
1 > In the subprojects themselves i lack both rationale and any serious
2 > details of how this is going to be planned. To be honest the 'graphical
3 > installer' is proposed and started seven times seven times by now
4 > without any significant results. And i doubt it falls under the category
5 > 'desktop project', it's much broader and has actually little to do with
6 > working on a desktop. On a minor note, the lead is not even member of
7 > the research project (or not so on the project page) and that seems like
8 > a logical requirement to me. Is it even a good idea to have a DTL lead
9 > also lead a research project? DTL leads should be validating their
10 > personally lead projects in the end, that's not a good thing per se.
11 > Just member would probably be better.
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13 I think an installer has very much to do with the installer, people who
14 are more likely to use (depend) on the installer are probably less
15 comfortable with configuring the system from the command line.
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17 I see the installer targeting more of a newbie basis.
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19 Tom
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