Re: Some thoughts on the future of gnome

[Alan McGinlay <root variant me uk>]

Thats not really what I mean, I mean that by the time Vista is released
there could be a windows version of the gnome desktop environment which
users could install on their existing windows XP/9x OS. to them it
would just be like installing any other piece of software except that
it would replace the start menu and control of the desktop with the
gnome environment!

I don't know how this would work to be honest but progress is already
being made in porting apps like gnome-meeting (I think it's basically
ready) to windows, so why not the whole shebang?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:08:53 +0200
"Michael Schulz" <mschulz creative-chaos com> wrote:

> The problem I see with this is that people don't buy GNOME. They 
> buy or install SUSE or RedHat or Mandriva or Ubuntu. So not only
> does one have to make sure that the desktop environment delivers 
> but also the OS. Are the applications available that people care
> about and who can they call for help? If their Internet connection
> doesn't work they can call their neighbour or friend to fix the
> Internet. If now they tell them they run Linux it needs to be as
> easy as with Windows. There was a Linux Mentor program mentioned
> sometime on some list (can't remember). This probably would help.
> 
> Creating such a network takes some time and effort and could be 
> a way to give back to the community for people who can't contribute
> code but are good at teaching other people.
> 
> Michael
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: marketing-list-bounces gnome org 
> > [mailto:marketing-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of alan
> > Sent: Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 15:45
> > To: marketing-list gnome org
> > Subject: Some thoughts on the future of gnome
> > 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > This is my first post to the ml so please go easy on me :) (I 
> > hope its the right list, I sent to a couple of other ones but 
> > this seems to be the best bet!)
> > 
> > I was just thinking about gnome and how to make it more 
> > widespread and I realised that the windows vista release is 
> > an ideal opportunity for gnome to get noticed by the wider public.
> > 
> > First of all, is it likely that a windows version of gnome 
> > (even a basic, light version) will be available when vista is 
> > released? The way I see it is this, people will look at the 
> > vista advertising and see all these cool features that it 
> > supposedly offers them but they will also notice the price 
> > and the fact that their old 2GHz system just doesn't cut it 
> > so they have to upgrade that too! What better time to have a 
> > huge publicity drive which shows people "Look! we can give 
> > you all this, AND all this other cool stuff, on your existing 
> > windows computer without the need for expensive hardware 
> > upgrades! And guess what? It's FREE!! (As in Freedom and as 
> > in beer)" I'm not talking about this in a "how can we beat 
> > windows" kind of way, more of a "what opportunities exist for 
> > popularising of gnome" and if you ask me, the vista launch is 
> > an _excellent_ window of opportunity 
> > 
> > All the publicity wont matter if gnome isn't able to do "all this"
> > though so perhaps we should have a bit of a recruitment drive 
> > right now and find people with the time to tackle some of the 
> > bigger tasks (porting, new applications etc). 
> > 
> > I know most of this is already covered in the road-map etc 
> > but I just want to tell people what I would like to see 
> > happen! I'm learning mono c# at the moment so I may even be 
> > able to help in a few months.
> > 
> > variant
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