On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 19:01, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 06:40, Andrew Sobala wrote: > > The release team tries to mirror the opinion of the community when > > deciding what becomes part of GNOME [Desktop and Developer Platform and > > Language Bindings]. > > In the time I have been part of this and other lists I have seen no > indication that the "opinion of the community" has been requested or > positively reacted upon. > 2.2 Call for modules: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-September/msg00194.html Discussion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-November/msg00177.html (and the many, many subthreads) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-November/msg00466.html 2.4 Call for modules: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00436.html Discussion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00600.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00777.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/msg00774.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-April/msg00928.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-May/msg01007.html Round and round we go. 2.6 Call for modules: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-October/msg00388.html We haven't finished the rest, yet :-) > > We can't put every piece of GNOME software in there, > > because... > > > > The GNOME Desktop is meant to be a coherent whole consisting of the > > tools that the most useful to the average desktop user. > > I guess some of us are lucky that this isn't really true: the "average" > desktop user probably does not need the accessibility stuff and all > those translations (just one) etc. That's true, and not really what I mean. In the past when this has come up, it's been pointed out in the past that we're really aiming at a "Greatest Common Factor" of what a user wants and needs from a desktop. And then people disagreed, and people disagreed with the disagreeing. It's very hard to define what we want from GNOME; luckily, we seem be able to reach a majority consensus on what it is. [See links, above.] -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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