On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:21:13PM +0000, John Gay wrote: > I just mention XFCE because it seems to be another DeskTop that everyone > has overlooked with the KDE-vs-Gnome flamewars raging away.
I have added a Window Managers section to the "packaged" list which should show up on the next www.debian.org update. You can find a preview of the page at http://people.debian.org/~synrg/packaged.en.html Please review it and post any comments here. I have deliberately left KDE & Gnome off the list, and have stated my rationale for doing so in a comment at the end of the section. If I felt we had the resources to process the large amount of material in KDE & Gnome, I'd add them to the list (or possibly make KDE & Gnome "flavours" of Debian Jr.?) but I think by doing so we would be fragmenting Debian Jr. and diverting energy from working on the core components. Anyone feel strongly against this approach? Sure, we could probably make a slicker Debian Jr. based either on KDE or Gnome, but at this stage, "slick" is not high up on my list of priorities. I'm aiming for "usability", which in my opinion, KDE & Gnome doesn't significantly contribute to (or at least not to the point where I'd personally be willing to invest the effort to include them). Of course, this doesn't mean I'm against listing individual Gnome or KDE based programs where there are no non-KDE/Gnome alternatives (see ktuberling, for example) as those can be put on a system without loading the entire desktop environment onto it to make it work (just the libraries are required). Ben -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ pgp key fingerprint = 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] [ gpg key fingerprint = 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ]
