Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0: "Mighty Atom"

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 09:51, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> mån 2003-04-14 klockan 10.40 skrev Bastien Nocera:
> 
> > No, I'm not pushing for xine in the development platform, I'm only
> > trying to make a movie player that works. This would just push Totem to
> > the desktop, not xine.
> 
> It would push xine into the desktop aswell (since it's a dependency).
> And then we would have two multimedia backends in the dependency chain
> which imho would suck big time.

I think we need to look at why do we want to start stuffing all these
applications into the desktop? What is wrong with them being available
seperatly? What does it gain the applications by being in "The GNOME
Desktop"?

What I think would be better would be a sort of GNOME Blessing, we can
say "Yes, this application is nice and works and integrates well with
the GNOME desktop and follows our HIG etcetc", rather than needing the
application to have to be "In the desktop release". We could list these
blessed GNOME applications on gnome.org somewhere[1]
and this would allow us to bless more than one application for a
specific task, EG Totem and GstPlayer could both be "GNOME blessed"
media players and the user could pick the one that works for them.

I also think that for an application to get into the official GNOME
desktop should be harder and have a much more stringent set of
requirements to adhere to. This restriction will result in less "core"
applications, but I think with the above proposal (and with the ease to
find other blessed software) it should result in less arguments, less
buised egos and more choice for the user.

If I was into all that redtape nonsense I'd write a G.E.P. for it, but
I'm not, so this email will have to do.

iain
[1] HAving a new website would be nice too...but hey...
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