On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 04:52 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Homepage: http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/ > svn/git/bzr/...: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimmie/ > Proposal on d-d-l: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00441.html > > Short description: > ================== > Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It's designed to allow > easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and > other things you use every day. > (Note: only the applet is proposed for inclusion)
I like many of the ideas in Gimmie, but I'd like to see them integrated properly. This seems to be happening with Empathy and parts of OnlineDesktop and I expect them and Gimmie to work together to get the job done properly. It seems too early to preempt that. I'm also against just accepting a module which does so many things. I'd much rather have a discussion about accepting a People applet. There's plenty of complication in that alone, though we could deal with that and end up with a great new feature that can gradually be used by other parts of the desktop too. But instead we are being forced to give a yes/no for an applet that can be a People applet, a Programs applet, a Library applet, or a "Linux" applet that seems to be an overview of them all, all visible to the user as a meaninglessly-named "Gimmie" applet with preferences to turn it into the different separate applets. I don't need to take all this all together as if it's some kind of new paradigm that I should just switch over to. Even if some people have decided that you like that whole system, we need to be persuaded in terms of the merits of the individual parts and we need the chance to accept them one by one. I'm not convinced that the maintainer understands this, so accepting Gimmie as is wouldn't make it any more likely that the necessary discussion and work would happen. > Summary so far: > =============== > + again, this is only about the applet > + some issues that needed to be solved first, and Alex sent a status > update indicating they were fixed > + there used to be a lack of maintainer resources. Current status > unknown. > + stability used to be an issue. Current status unknown, but should be > better. > + performance/memory footprint? (it was just someone wondering about > it, not people saying that it's bad) > + a few +1 from gimmie users > > Alex can probably send a small update. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
