Re: OpenCD & GNOME

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 8/4/05, Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net> wrote:
> Claus Schwarm wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 02:46:14 -0700
> > Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > <quote who="Murray Cumming">
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > We could try to ensure that fun applications running on Windows,
> > > > such as Gimp and Inkscape, are identified as built with the GNOME
> > > > development platform.
> > > Shouldn't be tough at all, there's a spiffy Windows launcher thingy
> > > for running the installers that includes some explanatory text. Would
> > > fit very nicely there.
> >
> > I've not looked at the OpenCD yet, so the following may sound foolish.
> > However, promoting the GNOME development platform to end users seems
> > somewhat misguided.
> >
> > Would the launcher thingy allow to include information about additional
> > GNOME apps that are related to a certain application or category, but
> > have not yet been ported to Windows?
> >
> > An entry close to Thunderbird could read:
> >
> >   "There are more (Free Software/Open Source) apps available if
> > you'd use GNU/Linux: Evolution is a great EMail application that
> > <list benefits here>"
> >
> > Or close to Abiword:
> >
> >  "Gnumeric is a Free Software spreatsheet application under GNU/Linux
> > that integrate nicely into a GNOME desktop, starts real fast, and has
> > excellent support for scientific and business calculations."
> >
> > If the applications names could be made internet links, clicking on it
> > could start Firefox and show their homepages to let users find out more.
> Heh, some may accuse us of slugging off certain programs :)
>
> A GNOME LiveCD with Win32 programs a la OpenCD
> is an excellent idea. The only technical consideration that
> comes to mind is the space available for the Win32 programs,
> after we use the space for GNOME. As we are planning for
> multi-language LiveCDs, the available space will be somewhat
> variable. For example, the English version does not have langpacks.
> My recollection on space figures is about 480-550MB for GNOME.
> Does this still stand now?

The spanish CD I built last night (has some bugs, so not distributed
yet) took about 540M. So there is space for some gtk-based stuff, but
not much. Of course, there is also some borderline stuff creeping into
the linux side of the liveCD- if we had a long list of good, gnome-y
windows apps, I'd be open to trimming the linux app list a bit.

Luis