Good day all, First off, a caveat: I'm just a User, not a developer. Take me as you will.
Now, a recent mail[1] on debian-devel reminded me of the Debian Desktop[2] sub-project, which I see could be a great solution to a lot of conflict and duplicated effort. What I see happening around me at recently (hopefully somewhere close to chronological order): * Backports appear for Gnome 2.x on Woody * Hopeful release date announced for Sarge to become Stable * KDE fans immediately realise that this date stands days before KDE 4.2 is due, and propose many unworkable ideas to squeeze it into Sarge at the last moment, during the heaviest of freezes. * Spanish Gnome Fanatics[3] make great steps towards a Ximian Desktop port to Woody * Gnome 2.4 arrives: Anxious gnome-ers want to see the latest and greatest of their favourite desktop, at a time when in all honesty we should be aiming for ripples, not tsunami. * I get a faint sniff that our Spanish friends _may_ be talking to Ximian about producing community-produced backport of the next Ximian Desktop. I can't seriously be the only one that still thinks that the legions of developers that volunteered to help put KDE 4.2 into Sarge, or Gnome 2.4 into Experimental, or those currently producing third-party backports .. between them couldn't produce one butt-kicking Debian Desktop subproject? I see a Will, I see a Way - and I see the combination as a win-win situation. comments? Regards, Shaun. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200309/msg00624.html [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/ [3] I personally see Gnome Fanatic as a compliment. I simply don't recall the correct name of the group in question right now.
