Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop

[Brett I. Holcomb <brettholcomb@charter.net>]

I'm afraid I have to agree with Spider.  As a user I really don't see what 
good this will do for us.  If I want to use a desktop I install it (I happen 
to use xfce) and then I set it up they way I want with my icons, taskbars, 
panels, whatever.  Same if I decided to use KDE (which I do on another 
machine).  I decide what gets put on the desktop, panel, etc.  

To me it is a total waste of effort/resources to develop a "Standard" desktop 
because there is no such thing.  Every company, every individual (including 
individuals in a company) has a different idea of what the desktop should be. 
  Every place I've been the first thing a user does is change his desktop to 
suit him - I do it to!

It also doesn't seem to fit the Gentoo philosopy - if I want xfce or KDE, or 
Gnome I want it as it comes from them so I can make my changes - I don't want 
some team's idea of what the ideal desktop should be!



On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:58, you wrote:
> 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

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