On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Alex Jones wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:29:11 +0100 > From: Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Baobab > > Hi Davyd > > Interesting to see that approach to portraying disk usage. Personally, > however, I feel that anyone really wanting this kind of software would > probably prefer to use something like Graphical Disk Map > <http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/>.
Maybe having an alias for gnome-disk-usage would help users who would like to swap out Boabab for somethinge else? (Also if Gdmap were ever proposed for inclusion I would hope it would use MB by default rather than MiB, as seen in the screenshot.) > As an outsider to this whole process, though, I'm not sure I totally > understand why applications have to be bundled into packages of vaguely > related software like this. Picking something helps focus translators and documentation writers and other contributors. It also gives a fixed point of integration. Ideally it should not prevent other tools being switched out in place of the gnome recommended default. > Can't distributions make their own minds up? Past experience would suggest they can all make up their own minds in entirely different ways (gnome system tools are a reasonable example I think). By making a choice gnome encourages standardisation but in some cases distributions will continue to ship their own custom tools. -- Alan H. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
