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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>, "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:50:35
Message-Id: 200308280248.18079.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop by Jon Portnoy
1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 1:47 am, Jon Portnoy wrote:
2 > [snip]
3 >
4 > > It also doesn't seem to fit the Gentoo philosopy - if I want xfce or KDE,
5 > > or Gnome I want it as it comes from them so I can make my changes - I
6 > > don't want some team's idea of what the ideal desktop should be!
7 >
8 > I've heard a lot of people say the same thing - that when they install a
9 > desktop, they want the default, not a distribution-customized setup.
10
11 Well said. I for one hope that the desktop project takes this on board.
12
13 Best regards,
14 Stu
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