Re: [Usability]Definition of "desktop" - was a Usability topic.

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Havoc Pennington">

> Just a .02, isn't it a weird technical detail of Unix that "the desktop"
> is a module separate from "the OS." Certainly Mac/Windows don't have this
> distinction.

But it's one that GNOME as a project will just have to live with. :-)

The distributors may not have to live with it, but we need to provide hooks
at our level to allow that to happen. (One of the reasons why I refuse to
believe Owen when he says that usermode shouldn't be put upstream.)

- Jeff

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