RE: GNOME Nirvana; How to reach it and what to do once we get the re. (Addendum)

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:17, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Andrew Sobala [mailto:aes gnome org] 
> > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:52, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > > From: Andrew Sobala [mailto:aes gnome org] 
> > > > Here's an idea, then. I'm not advocating this, but it 
> > might be worth
> > > > discussion.
> > > > 
> > > > Have Iain's apps.gnome.org, which is equivalent to 5th toe. Do the
> > > > review-and-rate-every-six-months thing. The feet could be 
> > > > something like
> > > > this:
> > > 
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > Sounds like a sensible way to run 5th Toe. I've suggested 
> > before that 5th
> > > Toe should have a mailing list.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if you read the whole e-mail, or if I explained it badly.
> > To clarify:
> > 
> > 1) The best apps (and only the best) in 5th Toe get the 
> > approval mark of
> > an official GNOME release set, and
> 
> So the best apps in 5th Toe stop being in 5th Toe and start being in GNOME
> Desktop? That already happens, for "most appropriate" rather than "best". Or
> do you mean some other release set?
> 

I meant a 3rd release set. So you have:

Developer platform: Libraries
GNOME Desktop: Essentials (nautilus, panel, control-center and so on)
New release set: GNOME software; the characteristic of this release set
is just "very good software" and it can contain more than one app for
each task, so it could contain epiphany and galeon.

There's a sort-of rationale in my first e-mail: this is the release set
for people who want to choose and download their own software but don't
want to waste time looking at every available app for the task, but just
the best.

Distributions would probably release the Platform, Desktop, and a single
favoured application for each task from the "Good software" release set
(eg. epiphany _or_ galeon).

So it looks something like this.

|----------------------|
|      Platform        |
|--------------------- |
           |
           |
           |
|----------------------|
|      Desktop         |
|--------------------- |
           |
           |
           |
|----------------------|         |----------------------|
|   Good software      |<--------|      Fifth Toe       |
|--------------------- |         |----------------------|

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Distributions distribute         This is a staging area _but_
selected software from this      all software has to be actively
bit; geeks have a choice         maintained to stay in it. Dead
of which software _they_         projects are dropped.
want to use from the
"Good software" release.

Then we don't bloat the "Desktop" with lots of bits of software from
everything.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

"We made GNOME-VFS support smb: and nfs: URIs. And we made OOo support
GNOME-VFS. Booyakasha!" -- nat