* Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
@ 2003-08-28 10:51 99% ` dams
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From: dams @ 2003-08-28 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Paul de Vrieze; +Cc: gentoo-dev
Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> said:
> On Thursday 28 August 2003 10:08, dams@gentoo.org wrote:
>> Spider <spider@gentoo.org> said:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Maybe I badly expressed myself, I meant that desktop won't build a
>> special product for desktop, won't ask if we should have a modified
>> install, or if we restrict some possibility to default...
>>
>
> Let me say this about what I view as the responsibilities of -desktop. It has
> two main responsibilities, the first one is to manage all current desktop
> packages (delegated to the appropriate subprojects).
>
> The second one is to research (yes research) how the gentoo desktop experience
> can be improved. That includes things like the menusystem. Some sensible
> session system (resp. for starting a windowmanager, which is currently quite
> nonstandard and depending on the display manager (not windowmanager)) and I'm
> sure there will be enough other things.
The problem is that the conclusion will tend to tune/modify the DE, and it
seems that people here don't want that, they want vanilla DE. For ex., menu
system is the first improvment I think of, but it has a big impact on the
look&feel of the DE. If we don't want DE tuned, then we cannot use debian like
menu system.
>
> That research leads sometimes to proposed changes. Each of these changes will
> be judged according to a.o. how easy it is to implement them, how standard
> they are, whether they conform to the gentoo way, etc.
This can be done if we have decided before if we want or not have a gentoo
desktop touch. I don't think it is now decided.
>
> The general idea being that if it is possible everything should just work
> after the emerge command has been completed. This also might involve changing
> default configuration files to work with the way things are installed in
> gentoo (like specifying the correct location of programs). This does however
> not mean that just anything can be changed in the default configurations.
> Look and feel should be as standard as possible. (for example k3b should just
> work out of the box and know allready where cdrecord is installed, etc.)
The last example is not a desktop issue for me. It's the maintainer to do this,
and to ask the cdrecord maintainer informations, if he needs it.
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