Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-25 Thread Daniel Espinosa
You're right John, and some others have pointed out, that we should act by offer blogs, news and any other difussion we have access too, to promote GNOME, GTK+ apps and all its goodness; this is the right way. I love, to see more actions from GNOME Foundation to support, by contracting people maki

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-25 Thread John McHugh
I was involved somewhat with the discussions Daniel keeps referring to. The talk of lack of GNOME applications referred to applications targeting the gnome HIG. Nothing to do with being open or not. Part of wanting to create something like this week in GNOME is to help draw attention to efforts ma

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-25 Thread Jens Georg
>   > * No apps for GNOME/GTK+ > > If that means that we don't offer a place to download nonfree > applications, that's not a flaw, that's a moral superiority! > It's part of respecting users' freedom. I think "App" in this context means what flatpack (and all its spiritual predecessors) is curr

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2016-05-25 Thread Richard Stallman
> * No apps for GNOME/GTK+ If that means that we don't offer a place to download nonfree applications, that's not a flaw, that's a moral superiority! It's part of respecting users' freedom. Every GNU/Linux distro offers a system for installing packages. And, of course, you can install programs