From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19263 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Aug 2003 22:58:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14384 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 22:58:31 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:58:40 +0200 From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030828005840.74aaaf24.spider@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.o'PEzenVKd2mNv" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop X-Archives-Salt: fa06176a-da3f-457f-b3b3-a487890f6e7a X-Archives-Hash: f43d30399e4b82508ec2ea769c656b05 --=.o'PEzenVKd2mNv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit begin quote On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:22:51 +0200 dams@idm.fr wrote: > * What is desktop : > desktop would be the project responsible of the desktop part of gentoo > Linux, without making global decision, like : should we build a > special product for desktop, should we have a modified install, should > we restrict some possibility to default... I'm quite against this turn of development as it will split our meager develpomentteam even further and direct resources at maintaining two trees in paralell. Even if one is just "desktop cludge" to make the DesktopDistribution work, it would require Time and Development. As a general thread, we could well develop a meta system to create one (or more) generic desktop setup's (I guess we'd at least need two, one for KDE and one for Gnome, or people would never shut up. ) Preparing a desktop distribution would require a lot of planning though, and is something that should be -VERY- carefully planned and documented before proceeding. > * The tasks : This is where it becomes interesting. Who will do such discussion? The management team? The users? The Developers? > > > That's why we might begin with a representation of what would the >perfect desktop product be, and see if we have everything we need in >gentoo. Thats a slippery slope to follow since it very much depends on the purpouse of the desktop (corporate desktops may well -not- include a webbrowser) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --=.o'PEzenVKd2mNv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TTekZS9CZTi033kRAhMNAJ43gYvF1E8329Y0SsvgPLy8ZaelkgCcCUpb ihKilqvMxQAdDODEg/glhTA= =nEnN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.o'PEzenVKd2mNv--