Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-08 Thread Felipe Figueiredo
On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:15:39 Daniel T Chen wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: could sync with Ubuntu. Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be to have a PDA-syncing application that could work with their Nokia, Apple, Google, RIM, and yes, Palm, devices?

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-06 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 16:02 -0500 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: Ubuntu by default includes a Palm Pilot sync tool and an HP printer configuration tool.I'm wondering why we need vendor-specific tools like these in the default install. even though they are vendor specific, they

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-06 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Well, I personally also would like to see a more streamlined one tool, one framework for syncing. And there are promising candidates, but so far gnome-pilot have lot of functionality to offer comparing to others. Usually such discussions ends with nothing, but if you Mac care about having common

Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
Ubuntu by default includes a Palm Pilot sync tool and an HP printer configuration tool.I'm wondering why we need vendor-specific tools like these in the default install. Gnome-pilot is limited to dealing with only Palm devices, and for this reason, someone submitted a bug asking that it be

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-05 Thread Daniel T Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: could sync with Ubuntu. Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be to have a PDA-syncing application that could work with their Nokia, Apple, Google, RIM, and yes, Palm, devices? Having a

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-05 Thread Darren Albers
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Daniel T Chen seven.st...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: could sync with Ubuntu.  Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be to have a PDA-syncing application that could work

Re: Strawman: remove vendor-specific configuration tools from default install

2009-03-05 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thursday 05 March 2009 4:15:39 pm Daniel T Chen wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: could sync with Ubuntu. Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be to have a PDA-syncing application that could work with their Nokia, Apple, Google, RIM, and yes, Palm, devices?