[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not trying to be snarky in my following comments: they're meant to > be constructive. > Thank you for your constructive comments. > First of all, the FD.o mailing list isn't only about "Linux," so specs > can't be written to it. Constantly referring to it confuses the issue. > Very sorry. Shall I say "UNIX-like operating systems with modern graphical desktop environments" from now on? Maybe "graphical desktop environments commonly deployed on UNIX-like operating systems?" Frankly that seems unnecessary, but I'll write it however you prefer from now on. Let me know. > Secondly, the reason that you don't know what editor is installed in > "Linux" is because it's not an OS. You know that gedit will be > installed on Fedora and Ubuntu, because they use Gnome. You know that > kedit will be installed on Suse because it uses KDE. You don't know > anything about what's on a Debian install because nothing is default. That is an incorrect statement.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux lt1.MYDOMAIN-REMOVED 2.6.27.5-109.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Thu Nov 13 21:01:50 EST 2008i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which gedit /usr/bin/which: no gedit in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/dfulton/bin) I'm running KDE from standard distribution provided packages with no funny business. > > You really need to switch to talk about desktop environments instead > of kernels and OSes to keep the conversation focused. FD.o is about > desktops -- it's in the name. I guess. Would that have been helpful? "freedesktop.org is building a base platform for desktop software on Linux and UNIX." [http://www.freedesktop.org/] Best implementation decisions for a given environment is an important topic of discussion and I hope to be able to assist in that, especially for the environments where I can provide useful insight. At the moment I am trying to "get people to understand the concept, understand that it will not (hopefully) break anything, understand that it will not force anyone to do anything differently, and build a consensus that this is something that will be useful..." as stated in the last email. Thank you for your input. Please continue to send questions, comments, and critiques. -- Darren Fulton _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
