Davyd Madeley wrote: > Some of us > care that the GNOME we ship and give out tarballs for is sane and cogent > and makes sense by itself.
But it doesn't make sense by itself. GNOME doesn't contain a kernel, a C library, or an X server. It only contains half of a printing architecture (the half that doesn't actually allow you to talk to a printer) and half of a web browser (the half that doesn't actually render web pages). It doesn't contain an mp3 player, and for a long time didn't contain an email client. Etc, etc, etc. Until GNOME is a complete stack from the bare metal to a fully-integrated set of applications and utilities, then yes, we need to care about what the distros are doing with it (which, btw, includes Debian, Gentoo, and the other distros/BSDs/etc who *aren't* making money off it.) (And FTR, I think we *should* be aiming for GNOME-as-a-complete-distro. We will never have a desktop as usable and integrated as OS X and Windows are as long as the user-facing parts of the system are at the mercy of the lower levels, instead of the other way around.) -- Dan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
