Dan Winship wrote: > Rich Burridge wrote: > >> I've seen GNOME steadily improve over the last few years, but it still >> doesn't have a cohesive wholeness to it. One of the problems in this >> respect is that different distros customize GNOME as they see fit. >> > > That's totally backwards. GNOME doesn't have a cohesive wholeness > because *it's not a cohesive whole*. It's a part. The distros *need* to > make changes to integrate GNOME with the rest of the distro and *make* a > cohesive whole. >
Fair enough. This is the Novell desktop (based on GNOME). I'm sure I could dig up some comments on the Sun JDS (based on GNOME) desktop too. My concern here is that each of these desktops will have a different look&feel that goes beyond what the "GNOME desktop" provides. A user that is used to one, won't necessarily be automatically "at home" on the other. Other distro's provide their own look&feel which will be different again. One of the things I like about the Mac OS X desktop (and Windows Xp desktop for that matter), is that all applications provided by the vendor have a consistent look&feel. If I'm familiar with one application on that platform, then I can apply that knowledge as I'm learning a new one. This isn't true of all applications on the various GNOME desktops. What I'd like to see is more "cohesive wholeness" bought done to the common denominator. The underlying "GNOME desktop" that all these distros start from. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
