Re: Proposed Modules, My Take



On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:

>  * gnome-schedule

Voting no. I feel that this would be well served to integrate with
something like gnome-system-tools, as well as offering an easy event
scheduling application (which in itself could be useful).

>  * gnome_war_pad

Voting no. This seems much more involved then any other game we include.
I have been meaning to look into playing it, but I wouldn't include it
in the desktop. After that comes Freeciv, Tuxracer, Pingus, you name it.

>  * polypaudio

Voting no. I would rather see GNOME be soundserver agnostic via
GStreamer. This opens us up to more platforms, including ones which
already have kickarse sound servers (like CoreAudio), and generally
gives vendors more choices.

>  * libgnomesu

Voting no. Feel there is a better solution, and it's not lib0wNm3.

>  * gwget

Voting no. It's just a wrapper to wget. People who are using wget, know
how to install gwget. Users who are not using wget, use Epiphany (or
some other browser).

>  * gnome-doc-utils

Voting Yes! Want to see desktop wide usage.

>  * pygtk

Abstaining. jdub summed it up pretty good. Would like to see more python
in the desktop. I feel it could do well being proposed for Platform next
time around.

>  * totem

Voting Yes! It's been too long coming...

>  * galago, libnotify, notification-daemon

Abstaining. Does anything support these yet? I am waiting upon the
technology, I want it bad. If anything in Desktop can be compiled to
support it, then let's turn it on. Otherwise, let's turn it on for G12.

>  * nautilus-sendto

Abstaining. It looked good, but I've never gotten around to actually
checking it out. I long for the functionality.

>  * goobox

Voting no. It seemed like it could be good, but wasn't really there. I
would really love to see the developers join forces for Sound-Juicer 2.

>  * gnome-backgrounds

Voting Yes! I am a whore for backgrounds.

>  * gnome-menus

Voting Yes! I (heart) new menu code.

>  * gnome-user-share

Abstaining. I wanted to test it, but it wanted to drag in scary
dependencies, so I never did. Other more informed people will have
better thoughts.

>  * gnome-keyring-manager

Abstaining. As I understand it, this app is almost entirely the product
of GNOME Love. I would love to see GNOME Love have the success of
getting an application into Desktop from their joint effort, and I feel
this is the sort of application that could perhaps be useful in Desktop,
but the lack of a regular release cycle and such has put me off. It
seems to me that it could possibly find a home in GNOME-Utils, and then
GNOME-Lovers could work with the excellent GNOME-Utils maintainers to
coordinate releases for G12. It would also allow some Lovers to get into
release cycle.

--d

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