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 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
