What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 23 20:10:32 UTC 2011


Am Sonntag, den 23.01.2011, 20:01 +0100 schrieb drago01:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 23.01.2011, 22:42 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> >> On 01/23/2011 09:58 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Also keep in mind that there are other "first-class desktop
> >> > environment". Moblin is just as much a GNOME based first-class desktop
> >> > environment as gnome-shell, just for a different use-case (Netbooks).
> >>
> >> I don't think that's the case.  GNOME Shell is a integral part of GNOME
> >> 3.  Moblin upstream seems only interested in being a complete OS and
> >> haven't cooperated well with other projects which want to include Moblin
> >> as a alternative UI in their distributions.  Conman,  trademark
> >> shenanigans etc.  I understand the point you are trying to make but
> >> Moblin is really a poor example to pick.
> >
> > I agree it's a poor example and Ubuntu's Unity is yet another one
> > because they don't cooperate well ether. Nevertheless all these are user
> > interfaces based on GNOME technology. They are not default and seriously
> > shouldn't be
> 
> gnome-shell *is* the default gnome user interface starting with gnome3.

I didn't claim something different. I said that *Unity and Moblin* are
not default, but regardless of what is default, we shouldn't force users
to install something they ether don't want to use or cannot even use.

Regards,
Christoph



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