On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:47 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 16 Jul 2006, at 17:57, Lluis Sanchez wrote: > > > > > It's not so important which applications do gnome include, since > > distros > > can take this decision, depending on the specific target of the > > distro. > > Up to a point... although a distro's choice of application is also > somewhat influenced by the level of support they can expect from its > community and its maintainers, because distros aren't usually in a > position to fix things in every app themselves. Since applications > that are included in the core GNOME desktop are known to be well- > maintained, widely-translated, and released on a regular schedule, it > can certainly be more desirable for a distro to include a core GNOME > app than an alternative, especially if it's one for which their users > are paying for support.
They are known to be somewhat well maintained but the quality varies widely in practice. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
