Some ideas on killer apps we need

[James Green <gnome cyberstorm demon co uk>]

For some time now I've been wanting to put this down on the list. Well
here goes.

The GNOME project has so far consisted on core packages (gnome-core,
gnome-media, gnome-network, etc.) and apps which people have created
seperately. It seems to me that there are a number of things that need
doing.

1. Since the vast majority of us use the Internet, decent apps for this
are sorely needed. A mailer backend(?) is being developed, and a number of
end-user mail apps are also under construction. While this is good, we
shouldn't just be concentrating on mail.

A large number of us are regulars in Internet Newsgroups, or USENET. From
what I can tell, other than News Peruser (who's website is currently down,
but who's interface from the early Beta of version 4 was quite slow and
user-unfriendly) and Pan (looks promising), we don't have much to offer.

2. We need a decent Program package maintainer app. if you were to combine
rpm and apt, and then make a decent GNOME UI, I think you'd have a killer.

Just some thoughts on a rather hot day in Sunny England.

-- 
James Green
http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk/
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