Not proposing Emerillon as a Gnome module?



Hi,

Emerillon is a map viewer. Aiming at simple user interface, Emerillon is
a powerful, extensible application. It features OpenStreetMap based
maps.  Use it to browse maps, search the map for places, placemark
places for later quick access and more!

Web Site: http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/

Over the past weeks, people have asked me over and over to propose
Emerillon to be included in Gnome 2.30.  While I do want to see it
widely distributed and recognized, it is my understanding that in the
future (based on GCDS presentations), Gnome would not accept general
applications as modules.

Emerillon uses Gnome technologies.  Emerillon follows Gnome HIG and UI
concepts.  It would be a perfect fit.  But is that why we should include
it in Gnome? The same reasoning could apply to some of the latest
additions in Gnome: should we include it in Gnome simply because it is
good?

AFAIR, the new www.gnome.org will make place for applications to be
promoted.  Such visibility could replace inclusion.  A sort of "blessed"
application set. That would be fine for Emerillon I think.

On the technical side of proposing Emerillon in Gnome:
      * The following dependencies are not blessed Gnome dependencies:
              * Ethos http://git.dronelabs.com/ethos/
              * librest http://moblin.org/projects/librest
              * Geoclue
                http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue 
      * It is already using Gnome resources (git, ftp, bugzilla, l10n)
      * Packages are already available for Debian, Ubuntu Karmic, Fedora
        Rawhide, Gentoo overlay, OpenSuse
      * It is 3.0 ready (Goal wise)
      * It is GPL 2+ with some files LGPL in case they'd be worthy of
        making part of a future lib.
      * Emerillon is quite young yet.  It doesn't even have a release
        schedule or a stable release, but it can be made to follow
        Gnome's.
      * On the A11y side, it lags just like libchamplain does. Users
        will still be able to see the data in sidebars, but the map
        itself is "opaque".
      * On the l10n side, thanks to the very efficient Gnome l10n teams,
        Emerillon is already available in 7 languages!

So what does the community think?

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin

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