Hi Davyd, On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:35 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:47 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi"> > > > > > The GNOME Utilities package is a small package that GNOME has kept since > > > the 1.x era (and before); it provides some application other than baobab, > > > like the screenshoter, the file search dialog, the dictionary and the > > > system log viewer, that are not sufficiently big to warrant their own > > > package but at the same time are considered part of the basic offering of > > > GNOME itself. > > > > I think Davyd's question was more about whether Baobab (or its function) is > > suitable to be considered part of the basic offering of GNOME itself. I am > > not convinced it should be there myself. > > As Jeff said. This smacks of KDE/GNOME 1.2 feature creep.
Yeap, from four utilities (a dictionary client, a file search tool, a system log viewer and a screenshooter) we passed to five. Surely this reminds me of gnome-utils in the 1.x days. Let's see what was in gnome-utils in the Glorious Days of 1.2: cromagnon edit-menus find-file gcalc gcharmap gdialog gdict gdiskfree gfloppy gnome-find gnome-utils.spec.in gsearchtool gstripchart gtt idl logview mini-utils gcolorsel gfontsel gless gnome-run gpenguin grun gshutdown gsu guname gw idetool notepad splash Well, no shit. We are really letting everything in these days. > Please don't get me wrong, it seems like a useful application (little > rough around the edges, but that can be fixed), but does it belong in > core GNOME? Does it belong to the core GNOME to view your logs? Or to look up words in online dictionaries? Or to create an image of your desktop? I'd say that viewing the size of your files on your disk at a glance has every right to be on the core, until Nautilus provides the exact same functionality. 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
