[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 13:50:07 CEST 2010

Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> schrieb am 2010-10-07
+> Thanks. That makes sense. Sorry, I was still thinking the "Mandriva
+> corporate" way. So, we are pretty well left at the mercy of the devs
+> interest with this regard. (I don't mean to sound negative, but more
+> realist in saying this.)
+> 
+> Do you know, out of interest, if there are more KDE or Gnome devs
+> interested in the Mageia project or if this is till too early to tell?
+Looking into the wiki: 
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging#list_of_categories there are 
+more packagers interested in KDE thean the others. Actually there's not a 
+single packager interested in GNOME which I think is a pitty. Although I do 
+prefer KDE, I'm using apps from all DEs. I don't see any reason, not to use 
+some app just because it is from another DE
+I hope there will be someone taking over GNOME. (after all I am the guy 
+building the Ubuntu-netbook-launcher for the German Mandriva community repo 
+because I do really like the launcher).
+
+> Also, out of interest, how hard is it to maintain both from a dev point
+> of view (time-wise etc.)? (I'm sure others will jump in and ask for
+> other desktop manager here too.)
+I think the main packagers from one of the DEs are quite bussy with that. 
+Especially if you try to fit them into a distro specific look and feel.
+In this respect it is perhaps a good decision not to customize them too much. 
+Makes the work much easier.
+Packagers as myself who were - at least till now - building only single 
+applications can do that for any number of DEs as long as they have the time 
+doing it.
+
+But I'm not a professional in this respect, I'm just an ambitioned amateur who 
+is doing his best in the time that's free for me to do so.
+
+Oliver
+