Re: Request to include gnome-maps by default in F22

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

I'll second this. I can't use maps myself, it's not very accessible,
but I'm certainly in favor of it being installed by default. Apologies
if I'm wrong, but fedora has always wanted to showcase all of what
gnome can do, and how can that be done if you don't include *all* of
the gnome applications that come with the desktop?


Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Andreas Nilsson
> <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-26 19:40, Allan Day wrote:
>>> 
>>> That said, there are other good reasons to include Maps. It is
>>> a handy application to have in the default install, and useful
>>> as a utility, in the same way as a dictionary, Clocks or
>>> Weather. From GNOME 3.16, Maps has two-way integration with
>>> Contacts - you can search for contacts from within Maps, and
>>> Contacts includes small maps for addresses (which act as a link
>>> to Maps).
>> 
>> 
>> Btw, seems the two big desktop OSes; OSX and Windows 10 both come
>> with Maps apps build it these days.
>> 
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-maps 
>> https://www.apple.com/osx/all-features/#maps
> 
> I think it's a good idea, it's a good example of a good app, and
> it's useful, and it helps people avoid being dependent on Google
> Maps, and I think it behaves better than OSM does in a web browser
> - I think it's pulling data from OSM anyway though right?
> 
> As for removal, I think it should easily be removable, as are most 
> applications, in gnome-software. Short of a drag and drop
> application model, that's about as easy as it gets.
> 
> 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2

iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVFIDkAAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTdj68P/2U3p9WZsGnogA2HJuHn8KEK
roZlEPrWhGXPc+5jLHr2vbJO0ZiiqO6NZfHuQknV/H4QMIUHHNMlXQwPrXctic93
UETkFC4g8rkefVEkiPJIalsKccD6ozYSdzsXGRgrqfexRfVZNp4FytQgyyABOt1G
97u0V8daOYgRqyxCZhh48RJ3TUF5HMOFL+ScujhqwdatsTXH2EaZWUi+gqSp7sNn
rYGUziYc7s1RPkGaWUTQRFW9BzTNwYUCJQt2Lb54/meoVPUe/ETZLyz9Mdf7rlRo
ADdP7ZcqvJULE8vNQI0QKZNweeC6oAE/xqZzFvoJRZz7TTpNjIcPGHePv+ny4+Fs
DWGfo5cNohmcGeuTwVCF5i2rfnv8Evkl5sm8cw3utzYnyeXO2LiVv9BPl4/Cu/tp
nF5xtnk3hkQ55jWeOeKMobuix3N5IG7GSp5laUGKs55jrTz3Q2/Wy6q5D84N2EPd
qoMqFa1hFrOsBr23p+lb/wbnwi0k8r3MZReRB5KaZGEnICksYaY2AFpvJdN5q8GH
Wvdkc7noUxPCCDvAGL/J4Q3FsYTO5I2XWmdhCiuSA7FbHZxdUuEqj/mitVb6KDob
xeN0ArZB5s86u2dzYbCDtJC2ogB9SJzQxNuaPPWrboNj9baorCCs1URGsjEop7CH
GejC1fVyPjHrv7QPSoVe
=NYxD
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- 
desktop mailing list
desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop





[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora KDE]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Config]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Red Hat 9]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux