Re: Baobab

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:47 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi">
> 
> > The GNOME Utilities package is a small package that GNOME has kept since
> > the 1.x era (and before); it provides some application other than baobab,
> > like the screenshoter, the file search dialog, the dictionary and the
> > system log viewer, that are not sufficiently big to warrant their own
> > package but at the same time are considered part of the basic offering of
> > GNOME itself.
> 
> I think Davyd's question was more about whether Baobab (or its function) is
> suitable to be considered part of the basic offering of GNOME itself. I am
> not convinced it should be there myself.

As Jeff said. This smacks of KDE/GNOME 1.2 feature creep.

Please don't get me wrong, it seems like a useful application (little
rough around the edges, but that can be fixed), but does it belong in
core GNOME?

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