Re: List of GNOME applications

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

Hi, Quil!

Good point! However, there are a few distinctions:

 a) Apps in GNOME's release packages (for example, Totem)
 b) Apps maintained on GNOME's servers (Rhythmbox I believe)

Consider that there are also packages maintained elsewhere but which
are part of GNOME release packages (ehm, Pango or GNOME's calculator).

The first question is thus: What is an official GNOME app?

The second question is: Why did you overlook ;-) the projects listing
from 

 http://www.gnome.org/projects/

The "Products" page under the "About" section will have to mention it
somewhere like "For a complete list of project available from GNOME's
servers, see ..."

The meaning of the "Products" page is to examplify what GNOME does and
what the benefits is, "desktop" on its own is too abstract.

However, it's not the responsibility of the web team to care about the
web pages and promotion on all the various sub-projects of GNOME, IMHO.
I prefer to think of
 
  http://projects.gnome.org/

as a sort of independent entity. It would obviously get a sort of front
page that lists all projects.

Cheers,
Claus


On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:46:40 +0100
Quim Gil <qgil desdeamericaconamor org> wrote:

> Do we want to have an official list of GNOME applications maintained by
> their respective developers in the next version of gnome.org?
> 
> Currently we are leaving this (key) task to gnomefiles.org, although
> this website is no making distinction between official and unnofficial
> GNOME software. Apparently GNOME has other concerns but we are not
> offering any alternatve ourselves.
> 
> I was reading Ross Burton's blog entry about "Why I Don't Use
> GnomeFiles"?
> http://www.burtonini.com/blog//computers/gnomefiles-2006-02-13-12-40
> 
> Having a look at the planned structure for the revamped wgo at
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb#head-414ca48c4650bea820c5caabf3a9c7bac9fc7878
> there is a "Products" page under the "About" section:
> 
> - Products (a sane list of the main projects, seperated into
> Applications, Desktop, and Libraries.)
> 
> and no mention to GNOME applications under the Download section.
> 
> although under Community there is a
> 
> |- Get more apps
>      -> gnomefiles.org
> 
> Shouldn't we give more relevance to the official GNOME applications?
> 
> -- 
> Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org
>