On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org> wrote: > Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 10:31 +0100, William Jon McCann a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org> wrote: >> > Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 00:37 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit >> > : >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> As most of you know, we proposed Boxes for 3.4 and from what I can >> >> tell, there were no big objections in the end. There was then the >> >> question of us actually delivering in time. As seen on planet GNOME >> >> not long after that, we delivered the first release which was included >> >> in 3.3.2. There is still a long way ahead to make Boxes the awesome >> >> app that we all would like it to be but to ensure that Boxes is in >> >> good enough shape for 3.4 inclusion in time, we would like to know a >> >> few things: >> >> >> >> * which features exactly are must? >> >> * is the plan to keep vinagre in 3.4 alongside boxes? >> >> * is Boxes going to be a 'preview' feature in 3.4 like Documents was in >> >> 3.2? >> >> >> >> Release team? everyone? >> > >> > I'm sorry, but I still have the same objection :-) And talking to a few >> > people, I understood that I'm not alone in feeling that Boxes might not >> > fit core GNOME (even as a core app [1]). >> >> Can you be more specific about the reasons for your objection? > > As mentioned in the previous thread: I don't think Boxes is needed for > what is our main target audience. And let me state again that it is a > nice tool for a small part of our users (including our own community).
The only thing you mentioned in the other thread that I saw was a feeling that it wasn't right. Can you explain why you don't think it is useful and for what audience? >> Do you feel the same way about Vinagre? > > To me, the main use case of Vinagre is remote desktop administration, > when coupled with Vino. And that's actually why we added vino in 2.8 (to > help sysadmins help users), and then vinagre in 2.22 (nice complement to > vino). > > The vino/vinagre duo is/was oriented towards sysadmins (although it > could be used for other use cases). Do you think these should not be part of the GNOME core? Jon _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list