Personally, we should cede the desktop to other projects like XFCE that work very well with minimal hardware requirements. I've noticed a lot of projects in GNOMEFiles with goals to write "lightweight" panels and what not. 10 years is a reasonable amount of time to expect hardware requirements to change. Looking forward seems to be the best course.
sri On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Ruben Vermeersch <ru...@savanne.be> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 14:24 +0200, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Tomas Frydrych a écrit : > > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >> I don’t think maintaining a few more packages (especially packages > that > > >> already exist today) is a big effort. But it stills bother me if we > are > > >> going to propose two entirely different user experiences with two > > >> different configurations. For the end user, it will just feel like we > > >> are shipping two desktop environments. > > > > > > I think that is a wrong way of looking at it; we are going to be > > > shipping one, unified desktop environment with a particular set of HW > > > requirements. In addition to this it will be possible to downgrade this > > > to the older Gnome desktop environment for legacy HW that does not meet > > > the requirements. > > > > I couldn't agree more. > > > > Furthermore, this is already the case today. The GNOME based environment > running > > on my N810 tablet is different from the one I run on my "big iron" > desktop > > machine. And I find that very cool that we can have different flavors of > GNOME > > tailored for different HW capabilities - if, of course, we can afford it. > > > > I am not sure users are complaining about that state of things today. > > Furthermore, users running old hardware generally don't expect to be > able to run state of the art software anyway. > > Not that we should forcefully deny anyone running systems older than X > years, but neither should we let ancient hardware stand in the way of > innovation, when over Y% of the population runs machines that are > sufficiently capable. > > Ruben > > > -- > Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv) > http://www.savanne.be/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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