On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Lorenzo Cogotti <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using Gnome3 as my primary desktop environment for quite some time, > keeping an eye on other desktops since I like always having a "way to > escape from choices I hate". > > So I collected some alternatives to Gnome softwares and I think that > some softwares are really tailored for Gnome and not for some other > desktop environments, thus I think that it would be worth it enabling > some gnome, or Gnome specific, USE flag on them: > > evolution: > this mail client is the standard on Gnome, a nice, desktop independent > and lightweight alternative would be sylpheed, and there are many more > of them.
File a bug, thanks > > deja-dup: > this backup utility should be the standard on the next releases of > Gnome, I think it would be worth it to integrate with nautilus enabling > the nautilus USE flags, releases from the 0.19 version also support the > integration with the Gnome Control Center (I guess subsequent ebuilds > will have the gnome USE flag), luckybackup is fairly desktop independent > (even if it is QT4 based). same as above :-) separate bugs please. > > totem: > even if sushi makes it useless to change it USE flags, I guess it could > be considered the default Gnome media player (as opposed to > gnome-mplayer which is quite independent). ditto > > evince: > it would be very nice to have all the Gnome integration features for > this document viewer, unfortunately there are little or no alternatives > (aside from the very lightweight ones like epdfview and xpdf or the > proprietary ones, like adobe-reader and foxitreader). I would love > having the choice of a, let's say, evince-base package, without the > Gnome integration, and a evince-gnome package, with all the nice > integrations (gnome-keyring and nautilus USE flags on). ditto > > -- > Lorenzo Cogotti > > > -- Fabio Erculiani
