Havoc Pennington wrote: > My first-order answer is that GNOME thinks of itself as "making a > desktop" - even though the _reality_ is that the larger GNOME > community/ecosystem is doing way more than that, and that the larger > tech industry is doing still more.
Would you consider junking the concept of "GNOME as a desktop" in favor of "GNOME as an application development programming context" or would think that the slicing should go deeper ? Namely, percolating the idea right down to the level where applications are developed around GNOME core (assuming the segregation of GNOME core and GNOME extras). From the earlier mail that you posted it would appear that you favor a shift of GNOME from a software development paradigm to a more personal/social (if I may) context. Wherein the *who* assumes greater importance while releasing GNOME rather than *what*. As it stands I don't see an aggressive movement towards (re)doing the GNOME messaging - its happening but its taking its time probably because of the distribution centric messaging that goes for GNOME. Perhaps the time is really there to start talking more about the context in which GNOME figures in every day computing rather then the concept where GNOME provides applications (cool as they may be) but in no ways do emphasize the stuff GNOME is supposed to do. :Sankarshan -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
