RE: [GnomeMeeting-list] 2.4 Proposed Modules - GnomeMeeting

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Andrew Sobala [mailto:aes gnome org] 
> > I don't think it should include an e-mail client. The best 
> arguments for
> > including a web browser is that people really do use one 
> all the time and
> > that it needs to work closely with the rest of the Desktop 
> in ways that
> > Mozilla does not. I'm not personally convinced that means 
> it needs to be
> > part of the Desktop release set, but the consensus seems to 
> say it will.
> 
> This is offtopic, but I don't agree. E-mail is many people's 
> killer-app
> and gets almost as much use as a web browser.

Yes, you have a point there, but it still doesn't feel _quite_ as integrated
to me as a web browser. I guess I'd like to think of the web browser as a
special case. And like I said, I'm not convinced personally that GNOME
should bless a browser. I'm not convinced either that we shouldn't.

Murray Cumming
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