Re: NLD10 and GNOME

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

ons, 08,.02.2006 kl. 12.09 -0500, skrev Rodney Dawes:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:43 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > In a sense, but a theme is more self-contained and wouldn't need review
> > in full the samme way that an extension to the panel menu code would.
> 
> It's not an extension to the panel menu code. It's not even a patch.
> It's a completely separate applet. This is in fact, in no way different
> than a theme engine in terms of integrating it upstream, into a larger
> conglomerate package. Why do people keep assuming every change someone
> does, is a patch? There are much better ways to do a lot of this stuff,
> than patches, with the architecture we have.
> 
I'm all the more pleased to hear this. Maybe if this had been
communicated more clearly from the outset we would have avoided this
kind of confusion :-) (or maybe I didn't do my homework before
commenting). Anyway, this wasn't really the important part of my reply
to Dan so don't read too much into it.

> And frankly, we need to show ISVs that it can be done, so they will
> start doing it too. We need their support, if we're going to succeed
> at actually getting Linux and GNOME to be usable and on desktops in
> the Real World (TM).
> 
I agree fully.

Cheers
Kjartan