On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:43 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Sara Dornsife wrote: > > I'm too ignorant to understand why the desktop needs a name.... > > So that you can choose which one you want in the login menus. > The name "GNOME" works well for that purpose though, especially > if KDE packages are put together so you simply see "GNOME" and > "KDE" as choices.
While I'd like to keep the GNOME moniker as a courtesy to the community upon whose code we heavily rely (personally I've always advocated a mention on our splash screen, just as we've always acknowledged OpenOffice.org on the StarOffice splash screen), I do take Sara's point as well-- we could just as well call it something generic like the "OpenSolaris Desktop", and it would still be distinguished from "KDE", "XFCE" or any other installed desktop in the menu and documentation. (The documentation itself is probably another reason to keep the GNOME name-- since we don't have our own GNOME docs team any more, we're presumably completely reliant on the community's docs, which I dare say refer to "GNOME" in a number of places.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
