On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 07:23 -0500, ceed wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:24:08 -0500, Ruben Vermeersch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> I've been reading recently that Shotwell is going to be the new default > >> photo management tool for Ubuntu (and maybe even in Gnome). > > Whatever Ubuntu decides has nothing to do with GNOME. > > One blog post I read ( http://is.gd/dbgj1 ) put it that way, so I asked. > Also, I actually think that what Canonical decides to do on it's default > desktop ultimately will affect Gnome under certain circumstances.
Not really, it's the GNOME release team that calls the shots and it's important to note that GNOME never had a default photo application or a default music player. It's completely up to the distributions to decide and we won't see GNOME picking one over the other soon. >From the release team [1]: > The long term plan for the GNOME applications that were removed from the > Desktop, Admin and Dev Tools modulesets is to simply highlight the > high-quality > applications using the GNOME platform through our communication channels > (release notes, website, etc). There will be no "official" apps anymore and no > 'Applications' moduleset in the GNOME releases. The goal here is be more open > with the app developer community around GNOME and to highlight all the nice > things that can be created using our platform. Ruben [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2010-June/msg00000.html _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
