From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21904 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Nov 2003 11:42:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-desktop-research-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30995 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 11:42:07 -0000 To: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org References: <56346.192.168.1.1.1069121239.squirrel@24.188.250.199> <20031118120612.GA3724@coppola.spandland> From: dams@idm.fr Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:40:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031118120612.GA3724@coppola.spandland> (Rune Morling's message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:06:12 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo-desktop howto fix-up X-Archives-Salt: bb935998-159b-4189-9604-e2b3b9c39c7e X-Archives-Hash: c9e58b505b5074344333d766598b0d26 Rune Morling said: > On 11/18/03 03:07:19, munky@munkys.com wrote: >> In that case, we should establish what programs we would like to >> include >> in this. First, perhaps it would be more intelligent to establish >> categories: > > [snip] > > Nice initiative. Might I suggest you maintain this list and add it to > the desktop-research project pages? > > In general, there exist several 'best of breed' applications for > different environments so how about adding what apps are native > to which DE? I run gnome 2.4 exclusively (this mail is written using > the gnome2 MUA balsa which works wonderfully), some run mixed > environments, some run pure KDE and yet others run XFCE and > some even run a 'non DE' with fluxbox et al. > > I think it would make the most sense if we target our efforts on the > 'de facto' DE standards (drag n' drop, mime-database etc as embodied > in KDE, gnome and XFCE). > > In other words if someone decides that fluxbox is really cool, > rxvt+mutt is the only 'non-bloated' MUA solution, drag n' drop > is a some fancy new-fangled concept of no real use, mime-type-handling > is a shortlived fad, then, well, he/she isn't really in the target > audience for the 'gentoo desktop experience'. > > Anyway, target audience is a central concept and I can't help but > wonder where we are in this respect. Comments please! Please read the manifest (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/research/manifest.xml), there is a definition of what a desktop related issue is. Thus you can see what application should be handled or not. -- dams -- gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list