Re: meeting materials: what is gnome

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:09:00PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Here is a revised version, incorporating Andre's feedback. More
>> feedback still welcome.
>
> I think the GNOME Desktop bit should be moved above the freedesktop.org
> bit and the Gtk+ & glib sections. At the moment it is more like a
> technical explanation, explaining that GNOME is built from
> freedesktop.org, etc.
>
> I'd turn it into: Define what GNOME Desktop is, then that we try to work
> together with interested parties, also explain how we use Gtk+. Think
> just changing the ordering of the sections would do this.
>
> Ordering depends on the target audience though. If we want to put this
> on www.gnome.org, I'd prefer to reorder.

My goal for this is that we as the release team define what we
release, and to provide some written down guidance for decisions
around dependencies and portability questions.

I don't want to go too far into philosophical questions like 'what is
a desktop' or 'what is gnome'  (even though I used that title...).

But using the preferred term for our product is indeed a good idea. I
think "GNOME 3" is what we officially call our product, not "GNOME
desktop". We're not going to get entirely out of mentioning "desktop",
I guess.