<quote who="Jeff Waugh"> > * Should we include Tomboy in the Desktop suite? (completely > independently from the fact that it uses Gtk#/Mono)
Hi, Here's my point of view, completely independent from the fact that Tomboy is built with Gtk#/Mono. Here it is in point form, because I seem to be doing pretty well with it: * Without a doubt, Tomboy is pure awesome. * Alex says that Tomboy doesn't replace Sticky Notes, he doesn't really want to migrate Sticky Notes data into Tomboy, and that Tomboy and Sticky Notes suit different use cases. * In my experience, users perceive Tomboy and Sticky Notes to fulfill the same (or similar) function. * We need a thrilling ecosystem of software that "Works With GNOME!" * We don't have to integrate *everything* into the Desktop suite. That was never its purpose. The Desktop suite is all about the OOTB (out of the box) desktop user experience. * "Innovation" doesn't have to be jammed into the Desktop suite because we haven't found anywhere else to put it. We have to curtail this idea that the Desktop suite is the be-all and end-all of GNOME. * If Alex wants to adopt the GNOME release cycle and strategy for Tomboy, that's *fantastic*... but we can approach that differently. * Let's give our users the ability to discover and cherish awesome third party software for GNOME. If we suck the known universe into the Desktop suite, our users won't be able to have that experience. * This is *not* meant to disenfranchise Tomboy or Alex, or make it seem as if Tomboy is a 'second class citizen' - far from it. Tomboy can be one of the first targets for us to fix that perception. "Be GNOME", not "Be in GNOME". Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "The ability to procrastinate is what separates us from the machines." - Chris Gregory, Desktop Magazine _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
