We'll get awesome GNOME packages from JGC as we always have, for the reasons stated in my earlier (and quite interestingly ignored) email.
Ciao iphitus On 9/2/05, Bozhidar Batsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > > > Bozhidar Batsov wrote: > > > >> Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > >> > >>> Bozhidar Batsov wrote: > >>> > >>>> 1.Runs perfectly - as many things in life that is rather relative, > >>>> but I've had my hands on GNOME in several distros and even FreeBSD > >>>> and everywhere else I had better exprience with GNOME, but none if > >>>> this OS had evenpart of Arch's style ;) I'll reinstall GNOME, maybe > >>>> the fault is me, but I saw some other users complaining as well for > >>>> the quality of the builds and decided that maybe something was > >>>> wrong indeed with them... > >>>> As to KDE having far more users than all the other DE - I cannot > >>>> believe that someone questions that... For the past several years > >>>> KDE has always won the Deskop of the year award which is decided by > >>>> users votes and wins it with huge difference 70% KDE, 20%GNOME and > >>>> 10% to all the others... And on the subject that Fedora and Ubuntu > >>>> are ranked 3rd and 1st is distrowatch, I might add that they all > >>>> the other in top 20 except CentOS and Debian bias towards KDE... > >>>> Of course I've seen the difference between gnome and gnome-extras - > >>>> but gnome without gnome-ternimal and gedit by default???But then > >>>> again maybe I'm wrong - I do not claim to be an expert on the > >>>> subject - I just express my opinion... > >>>> About the personalization - I do personalize it myself ( Batman > >>>> style, hate distro personalizations anyway) but it really pissed me > >>>> off to see that it seem more attention was given to KDE and Xfce > >>>> than to my beloved GNOME. You must excuse me for that - when it > >>>> comes to GNU I kind of lose my temper... > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I think the difference in their "treatment" is a reflection of how > >>> they are provided. Kde comes in big chunks, gnome comes in small > >>> chunks, as I understand it. tpowa maintains kde and JGC maintains > >>> gnome - as I understand, due to upstream issues, gnome is a bit more > >>> of a hassle to pkg, they like changing their mind about how they > >>> want to do things I believe. I believe that it is the solution of > >>> these upstream issues that drains time away from customization and > >>> extensive polish. You must know that the slackware devs, for > >>> example, completely gave up trying to maintain gnome pkgs? That > >>> seems pretty indicative to me. > >>> > >>> Phil > >>> > >>>> Anyway I'm looking forward to the upcoming GNOME 2.12 ... May the > >>>> Source be with You ALWAYS ;) > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> arch mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> arch mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > >> > >> > >> > >> Actually the Slackware's only dev Patrick gave up GNOME, but as I > >> have mentioned previously it was for the better - both Freerock and > >> Dropline produce very high quality GNOME builds for Slackware, > >> optimized for i686... I know that GNOME is cut to many more pieces > >> than KDE so it can the more highly customised and not too bloated by > >> default - that is its beauty - but if the devs are overburdened with > >> the packing of gnome I'm certain that the community can help Arch the > >> same way Freerock and Dropline helped Slackware... > > > > > > ...and as I said before - you better get started! > > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> arch mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > If I have to - I'm prepared to go all the way... But first let us what > will happen after the 7tf of September... > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- iphitus - www.iphitus.tk _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
