On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:58, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:01:03AM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Brandon and I are looking for desktop goals for the next year. Where
> > would you like to see the Gentoo desktop go? What's been done poorly,
> > what's been done well?
>
> A bit more work on internationalisation of applications. For instance,
> openoffice-bin is currently only available in English, it would be
> great if it would also listen to the LINGUAS (or is it LANGUAGE)
> variable and install the appropriate internationalised version.

True internationalisation of openoffice will have to wait for the 2.0 
version to be released. That version will support language packs. If 
anyone can give us help on language packs for 1.1.x that would also be 
welcome, but useflagging all kinds of language versions for openoffice 
isn't what we welcome (each language version having a size of 76MB).

>
> Develop a graphical interface for software installation with _minimal_
> amount of features (fex. just query, install, remove, update and
> security) and the promise that additional features will not be
> implemented. Think
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/software-management.html, although that
> proposal is a bit more extensive on other parts as well.

Well, I think a gentoo module for webmin or something similar would be 
nice ;-). There is however allready a lot of this around.

> Some documentation on how packages integrate in a system. How does a
> package add an item in the KDE/GNOME/fluxbox/E/... menu? How does a
> window manager add it to the existing sessions (and where)?

KDE and GNOME now both can use the freedesktop menu specification, which 
bluntly involves dumping global links in /usr/share/applications (but is 
more detailed)

Paul

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