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Hello, Here are some thoughts about desktop. Feel free to react, but please, if |
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you can, think about it long enough to post your comments all at once in a |
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comprehensive manner, so that we can easily summ up and take everything in |
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account. Note that we don't want to resolve every little problem here, but have |
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a set of directions, tasks and ideas |
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* What is desktop : |
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desktop would be the project responsible of the desktop part of gentoo Linux, |
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without making global decision, like : should we build a special product for |
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desktop, should we have a modified install, should we restrict some possibility |
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to default... |
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* The gentoo things that would be handeld by the desktop project : |
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X, KDE, gnome, other desktop environment (wmaker, rox, xfce...) |
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*dm (xdm, kdm, gdm, ...) |
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menu system (use gentoo menu system, or get the debian one) |
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* The tasks : |
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- maintain the project component |
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- decide general guidelines to be applied on the desktop project components |
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(do we want DE unification and how much, look and feel, menu entries, default |
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desktop, gentoo control center integration in DE...) |
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- write guidelines to be more (free)desktop compliant, to be used by the whole |
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gentoo devs for their packages. |
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- have a little research and development task to suggest integration of new |
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things in gentoo, that will make the desktop experience better (f.ex. bootsplash, new |
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DE, new GUIs (karamba like, ...)) |
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desktop may need some other part/project, like some usefull packages (menu), |
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configuration tools, unique control center... That's why we might begin with a |
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representation of what would the perfect desktop product be, and see if we have |
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everything we need in gentoo. If not, then we might suggest the creation of |
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additional projects, or inclusion of needed component. |
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