* Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
@ 2003-08-28 10:25 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2003-08-28 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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.
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.
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.)
Paul
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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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