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I'm afraid I have to agree with Spider. As a user I really don't see what |
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good this will do for us. If I want to use a desktop I install it (I happen |
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to use xfce) and then I set it up they way I want with my icons, taskbars, |
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panels, whatever. Same if I decided to use KDE (which I do on another |
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machine). I decide what gets put on the desktop, panel, etc. |
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To me it is a total waste of effort/resources to develop a "Standard" desktop |
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because there is no such thing. Every company, every individual (including |
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individuals in a company) has a different idea of what the desktop should be. |
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Every place I've been the first thing a user does is change his desktop to |
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suit him - I do it to! |
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It also doesn't seem to fit the Gentoo philosopy - if I want xfce or KDE, or |
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Gnome I want it as it comes from them so I can make my changes - I don't want |
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some team's idea of what the ideal desktop should be! |
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On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:58, you wrote: |
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> begin quote |
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:22:51 +0200 |
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> dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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> > * What is desktop : |
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> > desktop would be the project responsible of the desktop part of gentoo |
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> > Linux, without making global decision, like : should we build a |
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> > special product for desktop, should we have a modified install, should |
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> > we restrict some possibility to default... |
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> I'm quite against this turn of development as it will split our meager |
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> develpomentteam even further and direct resources at maintaining two |
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> trees in paralell. Even if one is just "desktop cludge" to make the |
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> DesktopDistribution work, it would require Time and Development. |
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> As a general thread, we could well develop a meta system to create one |
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> (or more) generic desktop setup's (I guess we'd at least need two, one |
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> for KDE and one for Gnome, or people would never shut up. ) |
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> Preparing a desktop distribution would require a lot of planning though, |
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> and is something that should be -VERY- carefully planned and documented |
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> before proceeding. |
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> > * The tasks : |
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> This is where it becomes interesting. Who will do such discussion? |
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> The management team? The users? The Developers? |
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> > That's why we might begin with a representation of what would the |
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> >perfect desktop product be, and see if we have everything we need in |
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> >gentoo. |
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> Thats a slippery slope to follow since it very much depends on the |
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> purpouse of the desktop (corporate desktops may well -not- include a |
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> webbrowser) |
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> //Spider |
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