Hi Jeff, On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 23:59 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="David Nielsen"> > > > I don't really think it has a place on a regular desktop, it would be most > > welcome in a administration application set for GNOME along side Sabayon, > > pessulus and most of gnome-system-tools though. > > (I think it would make more sense in a future 'Powertools' suite rather than > the misnamed 'admin' suite - it really should be 'management'.)
I was not aware that "du" was part of a "power suite" shell management package. Perhaps I've got the wrong distribution. Let's see... You have searched for usr/bin/du in stable, architecture i386. Found 1 matching files/directories, displaying files/directories 1 to 1. FILE PACKAGE ________________________________________________________________________ usr/bin/du base/coreutils Nope, it's in coreutils. Baobab is a GUI version of du: it really does nothing more and nothing less; it's a small utility showing the size of your files starting from a folder recursively. But let's see where find (the equivalent of gnome-search-tool) is: You have searched for usr/bin/find in stable, architecture i386. Found 1 matching files/directories, displaying files/directories 1 to 1. FILE PACKAGE ________________________________________________________________________ usr/bin/find base/findutils Another package, but still in the base Debian (and Debian derivative) installation. Finally, let's see where the dictionary client lives: You have searched for usr/bin/dict in stable, architecture i386. Found 1 matching files/directories, displaying files/directories 1 to 1. FILE PACKAGE ________________________________________________________________________ usr/bin/dict text/dict Uh-oh: it seems that the dictionary client is not part of a basic installation. Let's remove *that*, if we want to remove something from gnome-utils, and then let's see what happens. The point is: gnome-utils is a collection of utilities. Over the years has been reduced in size by removing less used/unmaintained programs and by giving other utilities their own space. We have reached the point of having four small-ish applications inside it. If we don't want gnome-utils to grow anymore, we might as well split the package into four smaller packages (gnome-screenshot, gnome-dictionary, gnome-search-tool, gnome-system-log) and then see what can be added to the desktop on a per package basis. Personally, I think it'd be a dumb decision, but I'll glady do the split myself - and then resign from being the maintainer of gnome-dictionary. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
