Re: NLD10 and GNOME
- From: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>
- To: Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>
- Cc: Dan Winship <danw novell com>, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org, JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>, Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- Subject: Re: NLD10 and GNOME
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:04:10 +0100
ons, 08,.02.2006 kl. 12.09 -0500, skrev Rodney Dawes:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:43 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > In a sense, but a theme is more self-contained and wouldn't need review
> > in full the samme way that an extension to the panel menu code would.
>
> It's not an extension to the panel menu code. It's not even a patch.
> It's a completely separate applet. This is in fact, in no way different
> than a theme engine in terms of integrating it upstream, into a larger
> conglomerate package. Why do people keep assuming every change someone
> does, is a patch? There are much better ways to do a lot of this stuff,
> than patches, with the architecture we have.
>
I'm all the more pleased to hear this. Maybe if this had been
communicated more clearly from the outset we would have avoided this
kind of confusion :-) (or maybe I didn't do my homework before
commenting). Anyway, this wasn't really the important part of my reply
to Dan so don't read too much into it.
> And frankly, we need to show ISVs that it can be done, so they will
> start doing it too. We need their support, if we're going to succeed
> at actually getting Linux and GNOME to be usable and on desktops in
> the Real World (TM).
>
I agree fully.
Cheers
Kjartan
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