On 6/22/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
GNOME Desktop Environment ========================= Specific Applications o Firefox Web Browser o Thunderbird Email Client
Not evolution? There are a couple of advantages to evolution: it's somewhat smaller, and integrates more cleanly into a business environment (ie. exchange).
o OpenOffice Productivity Suite
How vital is this? Yes, I would want it, but it's going to consume a very significant fraction of your overall space budget for a single CD.
o Pidgin Instant Messaging o Rhythmbox Music Player, supports free formats o GNOME System Tools - User, Network, Time & Date, Sharing, Services o Basic utilities - Calculator, Archive Manager, Character Map, Text Editor, Image Viewer, Screenshot, Document Viewer, Terminal, Performance Monitor, o Panel/File Manager - Desktop Preferences o GIMP Image Editor o CD Ripper/Creator
Games? (My kids rave about KDE because of some of the funky games it comes with. Something not to be underestimated.)
Common Tasks o Read/Write email o View/Add/Edit calendar appointments and reminders o View/Write/Edit document/spreadsheet/presentation o Browse the web o Print document
Does this pull in the ghostscript/imagemagick stuff for format conversion?
o Find files/documents/emails etc.. o Listen to music o Transfer photos from camera to disk and vice-versa o Catalog/Edit your photos o Transfer music from player to disk and vice-versa o IM your friends
IRC. Maybe include chatzilla with firefox?
Specific Requirements o Localized in 10 languages (de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pt_BR, sv, zh_CN, zh_TW) o No need for developer utilities or header files on default install
I would prefer to ship those (or at least some of that). It's one of the real pains with a Linux desktop install when you're missing the -devel packages and nothing builds right. This is an area where the normal dependency tracking for packages doesn't help you either. So while I wouldn't necessarily want a full blown compiler suite, the regular tools and headers (which aren't very big) would be very handy, if not essential.. Something else I regard as essential is adequate documentation, including man pages. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
