Re: extra app list (revision)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, mathieu [ chaos chaos chaos since 79 ] wrote:

> > > duplicate what ? duplicate mc ?
> > 
> > gmc duplicates the functionality of nautilus.
> > 
> > What I am saying is that we already have apps in the gnome release that
> > duplicate the functionality of others, so this is not a good reason to
> > disqualify gpaint.
> 
> Because some « same-utility / duplicated » softwares was already in the
> gnome-1.4 package, all the duplicated apps should be added, if they're used
> by some people ?
> 
> In gnome 1.4, should be all the GNOME apps not so buggy ? If the answer is
> yes, so you should add (maybe - I dont know if its unbuggy or not) gpaint
> and... And a list a hundred other gnome apps, panel applets, etc ...

Bugs would be a reason not to include an application.  I never said that
it wasn't.

> 
> Do you really want to make a package with millions of softwares, just
> because they exists, they're for GNOME, and they're stable ?

They should be considered on their own merits (if the author wants them to
be considered).

James.