Re: Opinions about Gnome integration?

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 07/31/2004 04:30:11 AM, Darko Obradovic wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As most of you noticed, I often make controverse suggestions.  
> The driving force behind this is that I really love the Gnome-2  
> philosophy, although being an "IT-hardened power user" I guess,  
> and thus I'd like balsa very much to fit more into this. There  
> is a nice story on OSNews about this:  
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7864
>
> On the other hand, balsa widely remained in the Gnome-1 era  
> IMHO, focussing on configurability and UNIX-philosophy. Nothing  
> against it, it's just a matter of personal opinion, but I have  
> to make a decision now for me:
>
> Whether to spend my upcoming spare time working on Gnome- 
> adaptions or not. I think balsa could be a hot candidate  
> against evolution to be included in the Desktop, if evolution  
> misses 2.8.
>
> Thanks for any insights on balsa's planned future from the view  
> of the maintainers/other developers.

Hi Darko!

Thanks for the link--interesting to see the divergence of views  
about GNOME.

Personally, I truly appreciate all your comments and suggestions  
about Balsa, and I believe that many have led to very useful  
improvements.  But (of course, there's a `but'...) Balsa is used  
in a wide variety of contexts, and (again, personally) I feel  
it's important to continue to support those uses.

I'd like to see Balsa be as friendly as possible out-of-the-box.   
A recent thread offered a lot of (sometimes conflicting!)  
suggestions.  At the same time, I believe it *should* continue to  
be configurable, so that it can meet the user's needs as they  
become more complex.  I'm not sure which side of the fork that  
leaves me on...

Regards,

Peter