As far as functionality don't overlap, I don't see much of a problem in including more applications in GNOME. They just help it get promoted further. If I take a glance at my menu under a standard Ubuntu installation and I count the number of entries of a vanilla GNOME installation, they're not too much. Of course, too much cruft in your menu is undesiderable; but distros can choose what to take in and what to leave out. Also, the recent systray-is-wonderful-to-store-gazillions-of-icons trend is a little annoying to me, but hey, tastes are tastes. As long as I can disable it, I don't complain. The only thing which is really important to me is a strong commitment to mantain applications in GNOME in a long timeframe (read: years). There are some apps in gnome-media and gnome-utilities which aren't always up-to-date; gnome-dictionary, for example, has some serious stability issues (I need to file more bugs, I know...). Ah, and sometimes unification of apps could help; for example, I don't see why sound-juicer and rhythmbox can be merged (maybe because everyone is waiting for banshee's inclusion into GNOME? :-)). m. On lun, 2008-07-28 at 09:40 -0700, Luis Villa wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org> wrote: > >>> motivating reason for rejection, also... most of the apps we ship are > >>> mostly useless to most of our users. > >> > >> Do you think so ? It may be I almost perfectly matched GNOME apps > >> till today :) > > > > Looking in Utilities: I rarely use Calculator, Character map, or Disk > > Usage Analyser. You don't see me advocating they be dropped :) > > I'll go ahead and advocate dropping them, if it'll help ;) > > This is exactly the kind of app that makes me think we should have > certification for non-core applications- a way to say 'this is great > and useful and GNOME-y' (which it is) without saying 'this a part of > the core of GNOME which is tied to our release cycle and QA > standards.' > > Luis
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