Re: [gnome-love] Re: [Nautilus-list] GNOME userenvironmentbrainstorming

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster ireland sun com>]

Christian Rose wrote:
>
> > I *DO* *NOT* speak for Sun. I absolutely don't speak for anybody but me on
> > any usability issue - I just refuse to have a special yahoo.com (or
> > similar) account to talk about these. Rest asures, whenever I'm talking
> > for myself but som other entity (whichever that is), the text will be
> > labeled as such.
> 
> I don't think you need a disclaimer. My Sun example was, well, an
> example scenario. You can replace it with any other made-up scenario
> with a packager that wants to have defaults that are better suited for
> their users, and maybe with some advanced features enabled by default. I
> just thought it fit very well.
> I still think it's up to the packager to choose suitable defaults if
> they need something else than what GNOME comes with. Most GNOME users
> will get their GNOME from a packager of some sort anyway.

I think most people by now know that anyone with a sun.com mail address is
speaking as an individual....most/some of us work for Sun *and* GNOME :)

> > Yes, I did mention CDE (which, welcome to the real world, isn't Sun
> > specific anyways), but you could replace it with any other legacy/alternative
> > desktop (like say XFCE) that has easily available multiple desktops in
> > it's place.
> 
> You mentioned CDE defaults and users switching from CDE, and I have the
> feeling that Sun will be trying to make the CDE -> GNOME switch as easy
> as possible for their users. Another reason I chose Sun as an example.
> Maybe HP is working on that too, I don't know. Ximian would be a bad
> example, I have the feeling that they primarily want to target other
> types of users.

Actually, while you're on this subject.....if anyone who has used CDE in the
past or currently has any ideas on what would be useful to migrate/transition
[insert buzz word] over to the GNOME desktop then send the ideas this way :)
There's a couple of us working on some tools so any brainstorming from other
people would be exceptionally useful....
And no, I refuse to write a CDE switcher applet for GNOME :P


				See ya,
					Glynn ;)