Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-08-06 Thread Ethan Osten
On Jul 19, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Andy Tai wrote: > What is this? Some type of threat? > To date GNOME does not have Mono and GNOME is doing great. > The majority of users do not use Mono and do not want to depend on > Mono. If you have your way, more people will lose their way. Who > have heard an

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-08-06 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, David! I already wrote I agree with Lluis that the success of a desktop is driven by a diverse and large set of applications. I've also seen many people say Mono is a nice platfrom to build apps on. I can't judge this due to not being a developer but I have no reason to mis-trust these stateme

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-08-06 Thread Andy Tai
On 7/19/06, David Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As if the question of Mono's inclusion doesn't already fragment GNOME, > those who are opposed to it because it's MS technology or similar, IMHO, > silly reasons (read: not based on technological merit) won't let it in. > Then there are people

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-20 Thread Ritesh Khadgaray
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:19 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Murray Cumming wrote: > > As for bringing in new functionality and allowing varied focus, I still > > think this could be done with additional release sets such as > > - Productivity: > > Spreadsheets, Word processing, Slides, Databases,

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain * wrote: > - Younger teenagers who want to stay in touch with their circle of > friends, share the latest funny video they've found and play some cool > flash game. > > - Older teenagers who have to do coursework and school reports, look > up

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-19 Thread David Nielsen
ons, 19 07 2006 kl. 12:48 +0200, skrev Claus Schwarm: > Hi, > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:57:04 +0200 > Lluis Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > If there are memory and performance problems with Mono or Python, > > excluding them from GNOME is not a solution, because like it or not

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-19 Thread Claus Schwarm
Hi, On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:57:04 +0200 Lluis Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > If there are memory and performance problems with Mono or Python, > excluding them from GNOME is not a solution, because like it or not > users will still use them to run applications. > > GNOME should ad

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 10:46 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > GNOME Maemo: > I don't know their "concept" or target audience, but I can > imagine something like - > Create a "newspaper replacement" device for coffee shops, > the kitchen table, riding the train to

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Iain * wrote: > Not sure if this is one of them rhetorical questions or if this was > even what you meant but its late and I'm bored, split the way I > understand best; generationally: > > - Younger teenagers who want to stay in touch with their circle of > friends, share the latest funny video t

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Iain *
On 7/17/06, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question for the list, what is the target audience and benefit to them > of the desktop release? > > Current: > - historical UNIX workstation users who want something similar but not > dead > - technology fans who want a set of apps the

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:14 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote: > One of the things I like about the Mac OS X desktop (and Windows Xp desktop > for that matter), is that all applications provided by the vendor have a > consistent > look&feel. If I'm familiar with one application on that platform, then I

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Iain *
> Regarding the "focus" issue, perhaps the distribution needs to drive > this, not GNOME. I'm thinking for example of ubuntu vs edubuntu > (education oriented variant of ubuntu). They're basically the same > distribution, with different default colors and different default set of > apps. So wh

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Ter, 2006-07-18 at 13:08 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: [...] > But regardless, if we want to be cohesive, >we have to *integrate*, not keep a wall between the applications >and the rest of the system. IMHO, GNOME doesn't need to integrate apps onto itself. On the contrary, apps

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Rich Burridge
Dan Winship wrote: > Rich Burridge wrote: > >> I've seen GNOME steadily improve over the last few years, but it still >> doesn't have a cohesive wholeness to it. One of the problems in this >> respect is that different distros customize GNOME as they see fit. >> > > That's totally backwards

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Winship
Rich Burridge wrote: > I've seen GNOME steadily improve over the last few years, but it still > doesn't have a cohesive wholeness to it. One of the problems in this > respect is that different distros customize GNOME as they see fit. That's totally backwards. GNOME doesn't have a cohesive wholenes

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Havoc Pennington wrote: > > This of course is a personal question that everyone has to answer for > themselves; if GNOME made a beautiful just works super-integrated > desktop, that did not in the end have that many users (that failed to > bring an open source alternative to the general publi

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Rich Burridge wrote: > > I was talking about things like: > > * look and feel. It's a beautiful desktop. > * ease of use. Most things "just work". > * integration of different desktop components. > > I'm not talking about market share. > This of course is a personal question that everyone has

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Rich Burridge
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Rich Burridge wrote: >> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: >>> I am not saying we shouldn't take good ideas etc., from Apple, but lets >>> try to remember that Apple is basically a failure in the desktop >>> market. >> >> What were you smoking when you wrote this?

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Rich Burridge wrote: > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: >> I am not saying we shouldn't take good ideas etc., from Apple, but lets >> try to remember that Apple is basically a failure in the desktop market. > > What were you smoking when you wrote this? > Well, it depends on your "succe

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:33 -0700, Rich Burridge wrote: > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > > I am not saying we shouldn't take good ideas etc., from Apple, but lets > > try to remember that Apple is basically a failure in the desktop market. > > What were you smoking when you wrote this

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Rich Burridge
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > I am not saying we shouldn't take good ideas etc., from Apple, but lets > try to remember that Apple is basically a failure in the desktop market. What were you smoking when you wrote this? ___ desktop-devel-

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-18 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:33 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:30 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > On 7/17/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and > > >> > not others. The point of blessin

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > Havoc Pennington wrote: > >> My first-order answer is that GNOME thinks of itself as "making a >> desktop" - even though the _reality_ is that the larger GNOME >> community/ecosystem is doing way more than that, and that the larger >> tech industry is doing stil

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
BJörn Lindqvist wrote: >> Current: >> - historical UNIX workstation users who want something similar but not >> dead >> - technology fans who want a set of apps they can mess with and >> heavily customize >> - thin client / computer lab deployments who want something with good >> manageabilit

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-18 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:32 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > > Since applications > > that are included in the core GNOME desktop are known to be well- > > maintained, widely-translated, and released on a regular schedule, it > > can certainly be more desirable for a distro to include a core GNOME

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Actually I have to say we should stop idealizing Apple that much, they are > a company which basically has gone from being the desktop leader to today > being a fringe player. They have survived partly by clinging onto a couple > of niches like graphical design and to some degree education. Th

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Jul 18, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> If that happened, the platform developers would likely have less >> interaction with application developers on mailing lists like this >> one. So you'd be more likely to end up like the W3C's HTML Wor

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > If that happened, the platform developers would likely have less > interaction with application developers on mailing lists like this one. > So you'd be more likely to end up like the W3C's HTML Working Group has > with XHTML 2.0 -- spending huge amounts of time pro

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: [a snip here] > They have over the last few years managed to grow a little into the > tech geek segment and the multimedia market, but even using things like > iPod and iTunes to push their desktops they seem to have managed little > apart from not slippi

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Actually I have to say we should stop idealizing Apple that much, they are a company which basically has gone from being the desktop leader to today being a fringe player. They have survived partly by clinging onto a couple of niches like graphical design and to some degree education. They have ov

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > Havoc Pennington wrote: >> >> My first-order answer is that GNOME thinks of itself as "making a >> desktop" - even though the _reality_ is that the larger GNOME >> community/ecosystem is doing way more than that, and that the larger >>

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Jeff Waugh wrote: > "Picking an audience" doesn't necessarily mean picking *only one* audience. Would it be that while searching for the *this is our audience* block, we have managed to begin to stop to think about what GNOME really is ? :Sankarshan -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literat

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Havoc Pennington wrote: > My first-order answer is that GNOME thinks of itself as "making a > desktop" - even though the _reality_ is that the larger GNOME > community/ecosystem is doing way more than that, and that the larger > tech industry is doing still more. Would you consider junking the

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> All this talk about the "target audience" scares the hell out of me. > Because if is decided that the target audience is the white collar office > worker (or some other stereotype I don't belong to) it means that GNOME > wont benefit me anymore. That doesn't have to be true. Consider OS X - if

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-18 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
On 7/17/06, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > >> Or even why is GNOME sidelining things like: > >> - Maemo > >> - Elisa > >> - One Laptop Per Child > >> - ... > > > > You make it sound active - it's not, it's passive. But that's changing. > > I don't

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Elijah Newren
On 7/17/06, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bindings > > So far, GTK# in the bindings seems pretty uncontroversial Assuming it can satisfy the rules of the bindings release, that is. Multiple people have pointed out that they would dislike it being accepted in the proposed form, with it

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Murray Cumming wrote: > >> So why does GNOME get >> so stuck on "the desktop" (by which we mean "the >> enterprisey/thinclienty/unixy desktop") and act like everything else is >> some kind of distraction? > > Really, lots of people are trying lots of other stuff, because people > generally sh

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hubert Figuiere wrote: > I thought we were targeting a desktop platform for ISV to integrate it? > In that case it make sense to provide modules. > > BTW what about providing the Office suite first? Because Gnome > penetration is first into large "business" [1] deployment, and and > Office suite

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> Or even why is GNOME sidelining things like: >> - Maemo >> - Elisa >> - One Laptop Per Child >> - ... > > You make it sound active - it's not, it's passive. But that's changing. I don't mean to imply active or not, and I'm glad to hear it's changing. I think ha

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > > But we'll obviously need to change the way we release GNOME too... > > > > Not significantly so... I really warn against this - no throwing babies > > out with the bathwater! > > The way GNOME is released is probably pretty good for the "linux > distribution GUI" release. It's a matter of

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> But we'll obviously need to change the way we release GNOME too... > > Not significantly so... I really warn against this - no throwing babies out > with the bathwater! > The way GNOME is released is probably pretty good for the "linux distribution GUI" release. It'

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:31 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Good to hear! Now spread it through the project: why are GNOME mailing > lists, web site, release groupings, etc. all proceeding merrily along as > if the goal is "make a desktop"... while even the immediate ecosystem is > clearly not

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Iain * wrote: > Once again, who are we targetting with the desktop. Apple know who > they're targetting, which is probably why text editor and terminal are > not high on the list of features. I thought we were targeting a desktop platform for ISV to integrate it? In that case it make sense to pr

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 18 juillet 2006, à 00:02, Jeff Waugh a écrit : > > > > "Suites" > > > > First impression > > Additionally, if I ever hear the word "core" or the phrase "loosely based on > the KDE idea of meta-packages" applied to GNOME release management issues, I > will go absolutely fucking mental.

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> But we'll obviously need to change the way we release GNOME too... Not significantly so... I really warn against this - no throwing babies out with the bathwater! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "You put on the pants, and the pants

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Or even why is GNOME sidelining things like: > - Maemo > - Elisa > - One Laptop Per Child > - ... You make it sound active - it's not, it's passive. But that's changing. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "I'm offering you

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 17 juillet 2006, à 11:31, Havoc Pennington a écrit : > Or even why is GNOME sidelining things like: > - Maemo > - Elisa > - One Laptop Per Child > - ... We're working on fixing this :-) > My first-order answer is that GNOME thinks of itself as "making a > desktop" - even though

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> There's also Windows apps, "embedded" (focused?) devices, online services, >> all kinds of stuff that could serve the goal of bringing an open source >> computing platform to the general public. > > If you were at GUADEC you would've heard about some interesting action

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> There's also Windows apps, "embedded" (focused?) devices, online services, > all kinds of stuff that could serve the goal of bringing an open source > computing platform to the general public. If you were at GUADEC you would've heard about some interesting action in this area (which will be mo

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Dave Neary wrote: > > So, my employer has thoughtfully (and unknowingly) donated an hour of my > time to this: http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseSets - it includes the power > users set suggested above. My take: this subdivides GNOME's existing audiences (sort of - it's partly an audience split and

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
Murray Cumming wrote: >> The word "desktop" is like a cancer. Its problems include: >> - it's vague as hell > [snip] > > The "desktop" includes stuff that everything (apart from very tightly > focused embedded stuff) needs. Vendors who don't need some part of the > desktop usually don't want any

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Jeff Waugh wrote: > > First impression: Too much, too fast, and in many cases ill-defined > > given the lengthy discussions we've had about where to take the > > definition of the release suites over the last few years. > > Like I said, first draft, and we definitely need someone better with n

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Waugh wrote: > First impression: Too much, too fast, and in many cases ill-defined given > the lengthy discussions we've had about where to take the definition of the > release suites over the last few years. Like I said, first draft, and we definitely need someone better with names tha

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> "Suites" > > First impression Additionally, if I ever hear the word "core" or the phrase "loosely based on the KDE idea of meta-packages" applied to GNOME release management issues, I will go absolutely fucking mental. Community service announcement. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, A

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> So, my employer has thoughtfully (and unknowingly) donated an hour of my > time to this: http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseSets - it includes the power > users set suggested above. "Suites" First impression: Too much, too fast, and in many cases ill-defined given the lengthy discussions we've had

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Nigel Tao wrote: > I remember that, some handfuls of months ago, Jeff Waugh [1] proposed > a Power User Tools suite outside of the traditional Platform / > Bindings / Desktop (/ Admin). IIRC he was musing about things like > Brightside and Devil's Pie, but one option might be to spin out > T

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Nigel Tao wrote: > ... > I remember that, some handfuls of months ago, Jeff Waugh [1] proposed > a Power User Tools suite outside of the traditional Platform / > Bindings / Desktop (/ Admin). IIRC he was musing about things like > Brightside and Devil's Pie, but one o

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread JP Rosevear
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:30 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > > On 7/17/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and > >> > not others. The point of blessing the application is saying that this > >> > application meets t

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread JP Rosevear
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:47 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 16 Jul 2006, at 17:57, Lluis Sanchez wrote: > > > > > It's not so important which applications do gnome include, since > > distros > > can take this decision, depending on the specific target of the > > distro. > > Up to a point... a

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Nigel Tao
> * Bare bones > > Do we take the current core module list, or should we strip it down to > move, say, Vino to a sysadmin bundle with Pessulus and Sabayon? It would > be helpful to have a full and complete list of all the applications > which are currently part of the core desktop. It would also he

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Frécinaux
Murray Cumming wrote: > As for bringing in new functionality and allowing varied focus, I still > think this could be done with additional release sets such as > - Productivity: > Spreadsheets, Word processing, Slides, Databases, Publishing. > - Creativity: > Photos, Graphics, Drawing, Video- a

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Murray Cumming
[snip] >It would > be helpful to have a full and complete list of all the applications > which are currently part of the core desktop. [snip] This, and the definitions of the other existing release sets (Platform, Desktop, Platform Bindings, Admin) are already here: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointF

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: > The "desktop" includes stuff that everything (apart from very tightly > focused embedded stuff) needs. Vendors who don't need some part of the > desktop usually don't want any part of it. So, it's just a "base" that > isn't yet a development platform. You're saying t

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:57 +0200, Lluis Sanchez wrote: > > Hey LLuis, I very much agree with your point of view. And I thank you again and again and again for MonoDevelop. You should be extremely proud of your work. As a developer who is *very* worried about memory consumption of mobile applicat

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread Murray Cumming
> On 7/17/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and >> > not others. The point of blessing the application is saying that this >> > application meets the gnome standards for X,Y and Z and has a release >> > shedule th

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-17 Thread Iain *
On 7/17/06, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and > > not others. The point of blessing the application is saying that this > > application meets the gnome standards for X,Y and Z and has a release > > shedule that coinc

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Murray Cumming
> Which makes me wonder why we are able to bless some applications and > not others. The point of blessing the application is saying that this > application meets the gnome standards for X,Y and Z and has a release > shedule that coincides with the gnome platform release. And that people will wor

Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-16 Thread Murray Cumming
[snip] > Don't call the desktop release "desktop" either because it's too vague. > More specific examples might be an "enterprise unix/linux GUI" release, > or "tech-oriented consumer/hobbyist" release or "tech workstation > release" or "high-powered MS Office user in an office release" or > "compu

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread David Nielsen
søn, 16 07 2006 kl. 23:40 +0200, skrev Rodrigo Moya: > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:32 +, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > Iain * gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text > > > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:32 +, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > Iain * gmail.com> writes: > > > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text > > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an > > audio editor? > > There is a huge difference between essen

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Iain *
On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW what about providing the Office suite first? Because Gnome > penetration is first into large "business" [1] deployment, and and > Office suite is more likely to hit that target. We still don't, but > distribution vendors do. I have no p

focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

2006-07-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Iain * wrote: > > Really? > depends on your context... > For some people a terminal and text editor are completely worthless, > but take away photo management > > Once again, who are we targetting with the desktop. Apple know who > they're targetting, which is probably why text editor and ter

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Jul 2006, at 17:57, Lluis Sanchez wrote: > > It's not so important which applications do gnome include, since > distros > can take this decision, depending on the specific target of the > distro. Up to a point... although a distro's choice of application is also somewhat influenced b

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Iain *
On 7/16/06, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain * gmail.com> writes: > > > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text > > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an > > audio editor? > > There is a huge difference between essential

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Lluis Sanchez
> That's exactly what I meant. Windows starting to be shipped (well, > starting...) with everything but the kitchen sink, and I hate that too. > I don't even *have* a camera, why would I need a video editor??? > > The question that I'm asking, and which we should be asking ourselves > is, does gn

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Jul 2006, at 09:36, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote: > On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Mono: >>> F-spot >> >> Image viewer, really non-essential. > > Come on, Eye of Gnome is an image viewer. F-Spot is a photo management > application (like iPhoto). Try asking Mac users if iPhot

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Calum Benson
On 15 Jul 2006, at 23:43, Iain * wrote: > On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Or a music editor??? > > Well, it hasn't harmed apple in any way. FWIW, GarageBand isn't part of OSX though... granted it currently ships with all new Macs, but if you go out and buy OSX off the shelf

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Hubert Figuiere
Iain * gmail.com> writes: > Why do we feel we are able to "bless" a terminal program and a text > editor and a clock, but unable to do the same to a video editor or an > audio editor? There is a huge difference between essential programs (editor, terminal) and specific applications (photo manage

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Iain *
> > Ubuntu, Gentoo, and the other distros should come with a music editor, > > a video editor, and everything else. The discussion here I believe is what > > should be made part of the basic gnome distribution, and I think that > > music/video editors might not qualify. > > That's exactly what I me

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Chipzz
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote: > On 7/15/06, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Diva >> > >> > Same as monodevelop. >> >> Umm, no, its a video editor...same as pitivi. > > I believe he was making a reference to the comment he made for monodevelop. Indeed. >> > Do we

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Jamie McCracken
Jamie McCracken wrote: > Iain * wrote: >> On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Beagle >>> Quite important IMO, but we have tracker as a replacement. >> I'm not holding my breath for tracker really...Call it a hunch, or >> female intuition or something... >> > > Well I suggest you

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Jamie McCracken
Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote: > On 7/16/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMHO, the program on that list that most likely should become a part >> of regular gnome is beagle. I haven't seen tracker yet, gonna take a look >> at it later. > > Tracker is listed as being on

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Jamie McCracken
Iain * wrote: > On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Beagle >> Quite important IMO, but we have tracker as a replacement. > > I'm not holding my breath for tracker really...Call it a hunch, or > female intuition or something... > Well I suggest you try it rather than dismiss it o

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Jeroen Zwartepoorte
On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mono: > > F-spot > > Image viewer, really non-essential. Come on, Eye of Gnome is an image viewer. F-Spot is a photo management application (like iPhoto). Try asking Mac users if iPhoto is non-essential. Jeroen

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On 7/16/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, the program on that list that most likely should become a part > of regular gnome is beagle. I haven't seen tracker yet, gonna take a look > at it later. Tracker is listed as being on version 0.0.4, and I couldn't find much i

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-16 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On 7/15/06, Iain * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Diva > > > > Same as monodevelop. > > Umm, no, its a video editor...same as pitivi. I believe he was making a reference to the comment he made for monodevelop. > > Do we really need an audio/video editor in gnome??? > > > > > Jokosher > > > > Or

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-15 Thread Iain *
On 7/15/06, Chipzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beagle > > Quite important IMO, but we have tracker as a replacement. I'm not holding my breath for tracker really...Call it a hunch, or female intuition or something... > > Diva > > Same as monodevelop. Umm, no, its a video editor...same as pit

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-15 Thread Chipzz
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Corey Burger wrote: > Hey all, > > It seems that the recent discussions of mono (and to a lesser extent > python) have lost sight of two very important things: innovation and > why we are really here. And your mail loses perspective as of how much these apps are actually need

Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-15 Thread Elijah Newren
On 7/14/06, Corey Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > It seems that the recent discussions of mono (and to a lesser extent > python) have lost sight of two very important things: innovation and > why we are really here. > > Regardless of what you think of the language they are being wr

Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

2006-07-14 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, It seems that the recent discussions of mono (and to a lesser extent python) have lost sight of two very important things: innovation and why we are really here. Regardless of what you think of the language they are being written in, there are a number of very cool apps and tools being w