Re: [Usability]Galeon 2 usability

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> What we need to do is spec out the MIME stuff on freedesktop.org, and
> get it shared by mozilla, openoffice, gnome, kde. This is one of the
> current major disasters of the Linux desktop, that we haven't fixed
> this. I bug jrb daily since he made the mistake of claiming to know
> how to do it. ;-)
>
> It's not that complicated, just needs some initiative.

I really hope to see it happen, is there anything a simple user like me 
can do? This is one of the most important things to do if Linux wants to 
get its share of the desktop.

Don't forget another "major disaster" of the Linux desktop: the lack of 
common system config tools. At the moment you have an incredible 
assortment of desktop-specific (GNOME, KDE control centers), 
distro-specific (Mandrake, RedHat, SUSE, etc.) and general issue 
(Linuxconf, Webmin, misc progs)  tools, are we ever going to have a 
single set of tools to do the job? I like the GST (ex XST) idea: a 
backend which can be shared among different distros/environments and 
customizable frontends. Hope they will get a boost ASAP.

[Sorry for the off topic rant ...]

Ciao

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