Re: Integrating 'G' Web Sites

[Shawn T Amundson <amundson eventloop com>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:21:00PM +0300, Cleber Rodrigues Rosa Junior wrote:
> I'd like to hear what you guys think of something like
> a collection of all 'G' projects. Let me explain:
> 
> gnome.org & gimp.org & gtk.org & glade.pn.org & pango.org 
> (& many others), content should be glued somehow. A perfect
> solution would be having a highly modular website, with common
> look and fell while allowing individual projects to handle their own
> websites.
> 
> I think putting all this under gnome.org's umbrella would encounter 
> some resistance. The arguments and reasons could be of the kind: 
> 'Gnome was born from Gtk, not the other way around!' or 
> 'Gnome people didn't write Gimp!'. Not that I agree with them but
> I believe they would come up and stand.


I have two differing views on this:

  www.gtk.org - yes
  www.gimp.org - no way

The difference is simple.  The GTK+ is largely for developers, and the
majority of those developers are interested in GNOME.  They fit 
together very very well.  The decision to allow it to be a GNOME 
site has been made by me already or I wouldn't have volunteered it
to this group.  GIMP on the other hand has nothing to do with GNOME 
or GTK+ any more than it has to do with libjpeg or libpng or any of 
other hundred libraries you have to link it with.  It isn't a 
developers website.  

Eventually, perhaps GIMP can fit into something like "GNOME Office",
but right now GNOME Office doesn't even exist in any meaningful
way other than a webpage listing completely seperate apps.  At least
not for an end user.  

-Shawn

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