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That said, GNOME usually +</I>>><i> > focusses on the very basic options. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Oh yes, We are GNOME, is there really a world besides? +</I>>><i> Most systems with this view of the world went down the drain :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> You mean like Microsoft Windows? :P +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Besides this more philosophical/historical view there is a technical +</I>>><i> background for my opinion, see my first point. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yes, and I (as usual) disagree. You see GNOME as a desktop environment, +</I>><i> where it should not touch anything that might be part of the +</I>><i> distribution. +</I> +Yes, I agree to the way it is described on the gnome.org website: +"The GNOME Project was started in 1997 ..... Their aim: to produce a +free (as in freedom) *desktop environment*." + +Or on wikipedia (which I care less about but describes exactly what I mean): +"GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs +on top of a computer operating system." + +><i> where it should not touch anything that might be part of the +</I>><i> distribution. +</I> +Not exactly what I wrote. I wrote "system" (as in "operation system"), +not distribution. I don't care what distribution or what desktop one +uses (as long as he uses Mageia!). + +But let's take Mageia as example: It consists of 2 parts: the +operating system and the desktop. The operating system is common for +all Mageia users while for the desktop the users can choose one of +many (including different window managers) or even none at all, an +xterm would do. This means that settings of the operating system +(screen resolution, networking, software management, sound system, +user management, etc.) should be done by tools common to all Mageia +users and installed by default, no matter which desktop environment +the user selects during installation. + +Besides, each desktop environment having its own setting tool for +these system functions would be an unnecessary redundancy and could +even cause conflicts if the same functions can be set with a system +tool (such as the draktools) and a tool of the desktop environment +(such as GNOME system-settings or the KDE equivalent). Lately we had +some cases in the forum where a user complained that he had switched +something off in the MCC but it remained unchange, until he was told +he had to switch it off in the GNOME system settings as well (or +similar situations). + +-- +wobo +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012162.html">[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012155.html">[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12171">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12171">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12171">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12171">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |