Re: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Vadim Plessky <plessky cnt ru>]

On Monday 07 April 2003 00:43, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
|  On Sunday 06 April 2003 22:03, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
[...]
|  > The goal of the GNOME project is to create a usable desktop where you
|  > actually get to spend time doing real work, not flick a thousand
|  > switches just for the fun of it.
|
|  Right now it's everything else than usable. Usable is what I find on KDE
| but not on GNOME. GNOME right now is a poor mess where you deal more with
| stupid configuration, toothbiting with GConf and getting things halfway
| working the way you like after you spent 7 days on it. And you need a lot
| of other 3rd party applications to immitate a halfway working Desktop. But
| this alone is not the point. You are heavily announcing GNOME as THE open
| source Desktop on all sorts of places and you know it's not as mature as
| for example KDE or you know it lacks a lot of code, cleanup, polish AND
| TOOLS. Tools that make people exciting to use GNOME you are not helping the
| Open Source Desktop that way imo. If you look around at the tools then you
| see that everything is half, not finished, not maintained or simply not
| existing. Seriously do you expect business will get excited about GNOME ?
|

To my best knowledge, GNOME is not targeted at business users.
It is Desktop for hackers, designed by Hackers.

Under "usable desktop without thousand of switches" I exactly see something 
simplified (like GNOME 2.2), suitable for running multiple xterms and one 
instance of browser. Or few browser instances. That's not important.
Important point is that many (potentially usable) GNOME applications are 
developed outside GNOME tree (Evolution, Abiword, etc.)
What GNOME lacks is integration of those apps.

And I can't take seriously statements that "Nautilus doesn't require Web 
View/embedded browser component"
For the Heavens sake, *how* you can have modern Desktop without integrated 
browser?..

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Vadim Plessky
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