<quote who="Emmanuele Bassi"> > > and the problem it solves for users, I think it is entirely reasonable > > to suggest that it is a 'power tool'. > > That's where I don't agree. > > For me the system log viewer is a power tool.
Please don't make points by making irrelevant analogies with unrelated tools. I've already noted my opinion of the system log viewer. > > We generally think about delivering a complete, integrated user > > experience like f-spot rather than a set of random one-shot tools. > > Then we should remove gnome-utils entirely, that's my point. gnome-utils > is composed of one-shot tools by definition (utilities). Many of which are entirely appropriate in approach and experience. > As I said, splitting gnome-utils into its applications and then submitting > for approval each and every one of them is a perfectly fine solution for > me. For various reasons, I think that makes a lot of sense, but it's unrelated to the topic of Baobab. > > I have often used the phrase 'greatest commmon factor' to describe the > > kinds of things we ought to ship in the Desktop suite. It means shipping > > things that are going to be appropriate for most of the different kinds > > of users who use GNOME. How does Baobab fit in with that? > > By providing a functionality not available on the desktop up until now, > and providing it integrated in the UI and in the interaction with other > tools (gnome-search-tool and nautils). There is a lot of 'functionality' we could jam into the Desktop suite because it's not there already, so using a generic argument here is not fruitful. > > What is the user goal that we are trying to solve by including Baobab, > > Showing the folder structure from a starting point, in a way that conveys > not only the hierarchical layout but also the size of every single node in > the structure. You are explaining *how* Baobab does what it does, not what the user goal is that we should be addressing. > If someone wants to code a patch for nautilus 2.18 and have it accepted by > nautilus' maintainers, I'll more than gladly remove baobab from > gnome-utils. Backwards! > > I'm not saying this to diss Baobab or your maintenance of gnome-utils, I > > just want to make sure that the things we've achieved over the last six > > years live on in the psyche of new maintainers. > > As you can see, those things haven't bounced on my thick skull. Those > things are why I love GNOME and contribute to it. I'm not saying you're stupid, I'm just suggesting that your answers are not correct. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Patches are like Free Software love letters. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
