Re: Personal remarks on Epiphany/Galeon [Was: Release Team's Almost-Final Modules List]

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:45, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="iain">
> 
> > Which, once again, makes me wonder why we have this fight to get
> > applications into some mythical utopic entity called "The Desktop".
> > Having an easy way to find software which has been blessed/certified
> > would, as afar as I can tell, fix these problems, because we can bless
> > both browsers and leave it up to the user to decide.
> 
> Please read the Overview section of this document, I think it describes why
> the desktop is not a "mythical utopic entity", and why it has real, useful
> significance:
> 
>   http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/screeds/twofourmodules.html

And umm, so?
None of that can only be fulfilled by "Inclusion in the desktop
release". 

Where are we going to be in gnome 5.3? A desktop release with 100,000
applications? Hypothetical, yes, but currently that document lists 19
items that were proposed for inclusion, and there's about 5 that werent.

So here we are, aiming for this perfect desktop release that has
everything people want, but that ain't going to happen. My proposal is
the same as last time I went on this rant (around the time gnomemeeting
got blown off, even though it had fulfilled all the "how to be included
in the desktop" criteria). Have a very very minimum set of utilities,
and then have a gnome certified applications website, that you can
actually find programs on, and let people work out what is best for them
themselves.

iain
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