Re: whoops

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

On 27 Jan 2001 16:34:51 -0800, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > gmc
> 
> If we add gmc to the extra-apps package, we should make sure it doesn't
> automatically install itself as spawning/respawning at startup (which it
> currently does). This is appropriate behavior as part of the core gnome
> distribution, but not appropriate for an "extra app". Some people may
> want gmc as their desktop still, but I expect more people will want
> extra-apps and prefer to use Nautilus instead of GMC than the other way
> around.

I think that gmc should be in the core gnome 1.4 release, not the
extra-apps release.  You've already heard this argument from Alan, but I
figured I'd have a try at making this happen.  Nautilus is resulting in
a huge number of changes for gnome in general.  Nautilus should be
something that's added to the gnome 1 platform, not something where we
pull one thing and replace it with another.  The duplication is
important, and it's been done elsewhere.  imlib/gdk-pixbuf is the first
example I come up with.  I think the configure time option to turn
on/off spawning etc. is probably a good solution to that problem, but I
do think that gmc still belongs in "gnome proper".

    Greg