Charles Goodwin wrote: [snip] > I've started to wonder about the merits of breaking up the > Gnome desktop > into subcategories, in a manner not dissimilar to the way the KDE > project does things. For example: > > Gnome-Core: All the core Gnome libs > Gnome-Tools: Nautilus, gnome-networking, gnome-system-tools, etc > Gnome-Net: Epiphany, gFtp, etc > Gnome-Comms: Evolution, Gaim, GnomeMeeting, etc > Gnome-Media: Rhythmbox, Totem, gThumb, etc > Gnome-Office: AbiWord, Gnumeric, Gnome-DB, etc > > It would be a useful distinction for those that want Gnome but not > all-things-Gnome: Apart from debian users, who seem used to choosing their packages in boring detail, I don't think this is likely to make much difference to most people. We want GNOME to include everything that the user needs, and that's what the distro wants as well. So I don't think most distros will even bother to ask the user whether he really wants all the things that he's likely to need. > o It would also be more difficult to criticize the inclusion of > things like Evolution in Gnome-Comms than it is for including > Evolution in the base Gnome desktop. > > o It would be easier for people to cut out Evolution by only > selectively getting parts of Gnome-Comms than it would if > Evolution were integrated into Gnome as (I'm understanding) > is proposed. Why would people want "cut out evolution". This suggests either - There is a shortage of disk space. I don't think there is. - We are forcing something on distros. I think distros do what they like. I do personally think it's worthwhile to have a separate release set for big things like Office, just because it makes organisation easier, without making any difference to a user. If we accept that it's just for the sake of release organisation then we don't need to worry that the boundaries will always be vague. A user doesn't care whether evolution is a core/desktop application or an office application - he just wants to read and write emails. Murray Cumming www.murrayc.com murrayc@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
