Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Colin Walters<walters verbum org> wrote:
>
> I think it makes sense to continue to have GNOME work in the basic
> "POSIX+X11" mode, i.e. gnome-power-manager just calls exit(0) if
> devicekit-power isn't running.  But beyond that is hard.

I should add that despite it being hard, the different interests here
should try to have a constructive conversation about it.

Some of this is more easily divisible than others; nothing directly
depends on nm-applet, and most projects using say
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager already have it conditional, and it's
not hard to do.  For other things like detecting a webcam device and
using it...well...hard.