Re: Proposed module: project hamster



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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