Re: GNOME 2.0 Defaults

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:13:55AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> I think that a really cool and highly usable default desktop is an important
> part of the eventual GNOME 2.0 release, so as a mostly-non-hacker, I'd like
> to help out and spend some time on this. From the webpage, here's a quick
> summary of the point behind it:
> 
>   "The final goal is to have a kickarse, beautiful and very usable 'Plain
>   GNOME' default desktop, with accompanying documentation of the final
>   recommendations and the process taken to develop them."
> 
> This will not be an opportunity for random discussion and/or flaming... :)
> The process will be strongly directed, and there will be very little room
> for arguing. Recommendations will be made to maintainers, and with their
> blessing, implemented.

Isn't there a fair bit of overlap between this and the UI and usability
projects? One of those projects (and my feeble mind can never keep them
straight) is coming up with default keybindings for example. And the
Usability group are coming up with recommendations that will make
accessibility easier, too.

I, for one, would prefer to see more leveraging of existing mailing
lists and mind-melds than "yet another project".

Cheers,
Malcolm

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