Re: Should I propose sabayon?

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:42 +0100, Julien Gilli wrote:

> >Now I'm thinking maybe I should propose it for inclusion into the gnome
> >desktop. However, its really not a desktop app, but rather something for
> >administrators of desktops, so it feels strange to propose it for
> >desktop inclusion.
> >
> Look at the post entitled "Proposal for inclusion in Desktop: pessulus" 
> on this very same list on 29/10/05, it has been discussed and has even 
> mentionned Sabayon :-).

I am going to shout up again here.

We need to pimp applications like Sabayon and Pessulus as hard as
humanly possible. However, there is also a good case for keeping with
our keeping it simple and clean policy.

This is why I proposed we create a new group to go with Platform,
Desktop, Office and Bindings which I tentatively named Administration.
Tools in Administration would have the same guidelines for inclusion as
Desktop, the only difference being that they are tools with a little bit
more of a specialised use and not useful to everyone who may be using
the desktop.

For example: at home I have no use for Sabayon or Pessulus or that GNOME
based LDAP Admin Tool, all they would serve to do is clutter up my
menus, even though I am classed as a 'power user'. Less advanced users
would probably just end up locking themselves down somehow (this
happened the other night on IRC).

Compare and contrast to my work environment, where I might have a lot of
use for all three of these tools (or maybe just one or two of them).
None the less, I could elect to my package management system that I
wanted to install the GNOME Administration set.

In fact, I would suggest that the last entry in the
System->Administration menu be "Get the GNOME Administration Suite" or
something to that effect. By default this would give a rundown of what
the GNOME Administration suite. Vendors would then be able to patch in a
link to their package management suite.

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