On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:49:52PM +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote: > 04.06.2012 20:32, Olav Vitters skrev: > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 05:51:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > > - Please change your wording. You have zero say in what goes on at > > gnome.org, nor about me. If you start by telling me what I must and > > must not do, it is better to not respond. > > Neither can gnome.org dictate what distros do, only suggest.
I'm very well aware, which is why I don't use must. It is a very long process, not going to change any time soon. Again, this started out with me saying "I prefer"... a minor note about my thoughts. Don't think that any of my messages as something I don't intend e.g. as if they are instructions on what Mageia should so. > > - I clearly stated freedesktop.org standards > > Yes, standards is good as long as they actully are followed, > wich is not always the case, but this is getting better... > > > - Maybe to clarify my point: When using GNOME, there should not be any > > need to resort to a distro specific configuration tool. E.g. xorg > > should be setup automatically, not require any distro assistance. It > > is long term and difficult. > > Well, the power and usability of DE agnostic control center is _way_ > better than what the DE integrated ones can offer for systemwide settings. Power I fully agree with. > Think of giving support: Instead of having first having to ask for what > DE, and then have to to tell the user the DE-specific way of changing > it, support can simply say open mcc, do this, then that, then... > and you are done. Depends on who is giving the support. > But yes, integration between tools, and getting more stuff to > work automatically is WIP, not something that changes over night. Indeed. > Not to mention pretty much every review out there lists mcc as one > of the strong points, so it's also clear that endusers want it... To be clear: I think MCC is great. But I also use Fedora sometimes. And sometimes Ubuntu. I highly prefer Mageia. I find it sad that something like MCC is distro specific. Other distributions have tools with their own advantages. I prefer if such tools are shared across distributions, just like most software is available between distributions. Possibly with some slight patches (like a lot of software), but that's it. Practically, probably not going to change any time soon, but I hope it does.. nothing more. -- Regards, Olav
