Re: [Usability]Definition of "desktop" - was a Usability topic.

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
> 
> > Just a .02, isn't it a weird technical detail of Unix that "the desktop"
> > is a module separate from "the OS." Certainly Mac/Windows don't have this
> > distinction.
> 
> But it's one that GNOME as a project will just have to live with. :-)
> 

True - also people might want to read the "Microsoft on migrating Hotmail
from FreeBSD to Windows 2000" piece as to why the separation is good.

> The distributors may not have to live with it, but we need to provide hooks
> at our level to allow that to happen. (One of the reasons why I refuse to
> believe Owen when he says that usermode shouldn't be put upstream.)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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