Re: [gnome-love] Linux Desktop Standard

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

Developers will always disagree on 'the right way' to implement a given
application. There are so many choices for developers these days, that
you will almost always end up with a two or more different tools that do
roughly the same job for any given development platform (MS, Java, KDE,
GNOME, WxWhatever etc). The friendly competition to be 'better than the
other one' leads to some great innovations. For example, in the GNOME
world, we've got galeon vs epiphany, gIDE vs Anjuta, OpenOffice vs
Abiword+Gnumeric. I don't know much about the other worlds, but I
believe it's much the same there too.

The GNOME foundation does a great job in proposing the list of
components that make up a 'standard GNOME platform'. For your average
working environment, this is great. So when the penny drops, and the IT
manager starts looking for an alternative desktop, we've got a serious
one to offer.

But for many working environments (those with signs of intelligent
life), giving end users a choice of tools for any given job (and the
source code to fix and modify them), is what's needed. One size doesn't
fit all. Choice is good.

Regards,

--
Ross

projects that On พฤ., 2003-07-31 at 08:26, Sridhar R wrote: 
> Hi,
>
> This posting is regarding Desktop Usage in Linux!
>
> This sometimes seems crazy! Sometimes not accepted!
> But this is what I think.....
>
> There should be a standard in the OS community.  We
> will concentrate on End-Users side.  When somebody
> creates an application for a purpose, the application
> should try to satisfy that purpose (if possible - also
> related to that purpose) fully.  But in GNU/Linux
> world, I am seeing many softwares for a particular
> task.  For writing CDs, there are many (GUIs).  CLIs
> are very standard, but we are talking about the GUIs.
>
> Again the presence of two different Desktop Managers
> is sometimes difficult.  I don't know how far is this
> issue for the users of GNU/Linux.  When you consider
> the Windows operating system, there is some standard. 
> For dialing up to the net, I need to use dial-up
> networking.  Microsoft doesn't provide more than one
> tool for a specific purpose.  But here, we have more
> than one application any of them without full
> feautures.  
>
> Fine.  Now I am thinking to introduce a standard. 
> "Everything is one and the best".  Lets take GNOME
> desktop as a GUI system (and it is prefered to KDE in
> this standard).  GNOME has already adopted a standard
> on its one.  Nautilus Filemanager (with integrated
> cd-writing..), Galeon (browser), Gnome-office, ..  ! 
> But the final product (distro) is really mixed.  A
> desktop GNU/Linux system should consist of all
> required softwares each satisfying a specific purpose.
>  Being so, they should be as feauture rich as
> possible.  Whenever a developer write a software, he
> should confirm the fact, his or someone's project will
> be full-fledged end product for the respective
> purpose.  For a purpose, developers across the country
> should unite to work for it when they think about
> developing a software on their own for that purpose.
>
> I think there aren't many killer softwares available
> under Linux.  If available, most of them are CLI or
> feature deficient.  There should be a standard for
> Desktop Linux.  If this happens, probably one can come
> along with a distro that adopts to this standard (or
> inherit from other distro or instruct them to do so
> (Mdk?) ).
>
> After this, desktop usage of Linux would be believed
> to fit well in areas were Windows stays.
>
> Regarding this issue, I am currently trying to know
> all the technical details of GNOME and related stuffs.
>  Also I will involve on some software projects (if not
> already done) that will adhere to the above standard. 
> My GNU/Linux experience will go this way ....
>
> Note
> ====
> 1. gIDE has been a popular IDE for GNOME develpers
> once upon a time.  But now gIDE and the current most
> popular development tool Anjuta joined together to
> work on Anjuta Dev Studio.  
> http://anjuta.org
> This explains why this "One and the best" policy.
>
> 2. We have "powerarchiver" for windows.  No software
> in GNU/Linux is equivalent to this one.
> http://powerarchiver.com
> Like this we can list out many GUI stuffs. (Of course,
> Windows devs can't beat Linux devs when coming to
> CLIs.  cdrecord, mplayer are all killer softwares than
> that in Windows)
>
> Any thoughts? ...
>
>
> =====
> Name: R. Sridhar
> Mail: sridharinfinity yahoo com
> ES: Doing BE CSE in Anna University
>
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