2011/11/30 Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org> > > > > The only thing you mentioned in the other thread that I saw was a > > feeling that it wasn't right. > > I said that I didn't feel Boxes should be tracked as a feature, and that > I didn't believe it was useful to most users.
I agree with Vincent: there is a difference between "Boxes is useful" and "Boxes should be a core feature of GNOME". > > > Can you explain why you don't think it is useful and for what > > audience? > > Just to clarify: I didn't say it is not useful. I even said it's > something that is essential to some users. > > Boxes is great for software developers, contributors to GNOME & distros, > and technology enthusiasts. Those are all people we care deeply about, > but I don't believe they represent such a high percentage of our users > (or of all users we'd like to have). I feel the same contradiction: we want to hide the file manager because file systems and folders are a trouble and an unclear concept, but at the same time we promote a VM (local and remote) manager tool as a day-to-day need. THis feeling drives to me to the following question: what's the audience you (William and Jackub, if I recall correctly the Boxes design is from you) you had in mind for GNOME? And, in suborder, why can't Boxes be simply a non-core, featured application, just like GIMP or Simple Scan? (if I missed a previous explanation, sorry: please point me to it) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list