Re: [gDesklets] FYI discussion of a merger

[Bjoern Koch <H Humpel gmx de>]

Hi Lauri,

> I'm gonna post my short view on this from the compiz forums:
>
> > And if someone asks me, I'd see a kind of an umbrella project as the 
> > best solution for the current situation. Gene ('reh4c') suggested 
> > XEmbed. We could build a wrapper engine that could take the outputted
> >  windows from all the other sub-engines (screenlets, jackfield, gd) 
> > and shove them into separate windows. That would already remove the 
> > need to do a separate UI for each widget-engine.
>
> That would remove the unnecessary boilerplate stuff that's produced by
> each project.

Hmmm... so you are basically aiming for some kind of Meta-Desklet engine ?

> Show activity of what? There is no activity worth reporting. I do agree
> that it would be nice to have something like "newest desklets" on the
> frontpage, but we really don't have much to report.

Well, I don't think that we don't have much to report on, especially 
when you take a look at the last month.
Of course there are not a lot of "biggies" to report of, but "showing 
activity" is more about showing that *something* is going on and people 
don't get the feeling that gDesklets is plain dead.
Announcing the IRC meetings and things like the latest changes to the 
devel branch (like: new stuff coming soon in the next release) would 
already be enough. And we would have plenty of these (and other) little 
"activities" to report for a new entry once a week (or every fortnight 
or so).
Now we have 5 "news" on the start page of the website within 8 month!
And I think there has been much more going on within these 8 month worth 
reporting on.

> Have to agree with Robo on this. It needs work. And we lack the manpower.

Again: I already some kind of volunteered to moderate the forum (as good 
as I can).

> I'm really up for making concrete plans on what could be achieved with a 
> merger. Or let's call it cooperation. Merger usually means burying the 
> original projects. After we have real plans, we can do some real 
> discussing :)

OK, a "cooperation" sounds much much better than a merger ;).
Looking forward for the more concrete plans and the discussion ;).

See you tonight ;).

Greetings, Bjoern