Re: Lock'n'load! [Was: Integrating system tools in GNOME]

[Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>]

El vie, 04-06-2004 a las 11:32, +1000, Jeff Waugh escribió:
> <quote who="Alberto Ruiz">
> 
> > We have a very supported and complete stack of apps. for the system
> > managing with gnome system tools, and I think that still saying that it
> > can't be included in the GNOME Desktop for stetical reasons is wrong.
> 
> When you say 'stetical', do you mean 'aesthetic'? Because that's not really
> the reason why g-s-t hasn't been shipped to date. Recent releases are VERY
> sexy -- GNOME-style!
> 
> The issues so far have been:
> 
>   * Lack of distro buy-in - why commit to something in the Desktop release
>     that few of our downstreams will ship? I don't think this argument is
>     going to be taken seriously during the 2.8 process.
> 
>   * Lack of integration design - we can't just dump a bunch of icons in the
>     System Tools menu, we have to figure out how to approach user and system
>     preferences properly in future (so vendors can use the same scheme with
>     their own tools if they have to as well).
> 
> I think the second point is easily solved for 2.8, we just need to put our
> heads together and figure it out. The first one is tougher, but with the
> community distros shipping it, and knowing that g-s-t will be *the* desktop
> integrated solution, I reckon we should start APPLYING PRESSURE.

amen, brother :-))

> 
> LOCK'N'LOAD, it's SYSTEM TOOLS TIME!
> 
> - Jeff
>