On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 22:05 -0500, George Ganoe wrote:
Cooperation between KDE, Gnome, and other Desktop managers would be
great
to see. However, I think it should be at the upstream level between the
various projects themselves. As to dissing other distributions for
what they choose to include in the distribution, I think that is uncalled
for. For instance, Ubuntu has made a concerted effort to provide as
complete a desktop environment as possible on a single CDROM disk. If
they were to put KDE as well as Gnome on the disk, something else would
have to go. Since KDE and Gnome serve the same function, they made a
choice, and with many other applications with multiple selections, they
made choices there as well. But in the end, they were able to create
a very complete desktop environment and put it on a single CD. If the
user wants to add KDE, they can select it for install in the "Synaptic
Package Manager" and get a very complete KDE desktop very easily, or
use the command line and type "sudo apt-get install kde" to get the same
thing.
One of the big challenges we are facing here is figuring out how to
satisfy the needs of all the distros and projects with a documentation
commons.
Perhaps the first order of business would be to figure out:
1. Is there something that can be done in making a commons?
2. Is there an outcome that is worth the effort?
3. Do other distros and projects care?
- Karsten
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