Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> schrieb am 2010-10-07 > Thanks. That makes sense. Sorry, I was still thinking the "Mandriva > corporate" way. So, we are pretty well left at the mercy of the devs > interest with this regard. (I don't mean to sound negative, but more > realist in saying this.) > > Do you know, out of interest, if there are more KDE or Gnome devs > interested in the Mageia project or if this is till too early to tell? Looking into the wiki: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging#list_of_categories there are more packagers interested in KDE thean the others. Actually there's not a single packager interested in GNOME which I think is a pitty. Although I do prefer KDE, I'm using apps from all DEs. I don't see any reason, not to use some app just because it is from another DE I hope there will be someone taking over GNOME. (after all I am the guy building the Ubuntu-netbook-launcher for the German Mandriva community repo because I do really like the launcher).
> Also, out of interest, how hard is it to maintain both from a dev point > of view (time-wise etc.)? (I'm sure others will jump in and ask for > other desktop manager here too.) I think the main packagers from one of the DEs are quite bussy with that. Especially if you try to fit them into a distro specific look and feel. In this respect it is perhaps a good decision not to customize them too much. Makes the work much easier. Packagers as myself who were - at least till now - building only single applications can do that for any number of DEs as long as they have the time doing it. But I'm not a professional in this respect, I'm just an ambitioned amateur who is doing his best in the time that's free for me to do so. Oliver