[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Thu Oct 7 14:23:09 CEST 2010

On 7 October 2010 13:10, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 23:18 -0400, Sorteal a écrit :
+>> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> > 2010/10/7 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
+>> > >
+>> > > I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev
+>> > > group. Just so that we know for sure. So, is Mageia going to be principally
+>> > > a KDE distro with offers during installation to install GNOME and other
+>> > > desktops? Or is it going to be a desktop agnostic distro where the user
+>> > > eventually picks the desktop sometime during the installation processs?
+>> > >
+>> > > This may help with this thread on the talk of browsers.
+>> >
+>> > Pls correct me if I'm wrong but I don't know any browser which is DE
+>> > dependent - well, there's konqueror, if you want to call this "I want
+>> > to be everything" a browser. But for real browsers, what does it
+>> > matter which DE is used?
+>>
+>> While Mandriva officially supported both GNOME and KDE, I do remember
+>> the last time I tried the GNOME version of Mandriva it was pretty much a
+>> raw GNOME install.
+>
+> Yeah, that's in fact a feature. GNOME was manager by Frederic Crozat,
+> who is a gnome developer, so he followed quite closely gnome decisions.
+>
+
+And KDE was managed by whom? all the Mandriva KDE team were/are KDE developers.
+
+It's just different packaging philosophies, KDE guys like to customize
+stuff (that's a bit generalising); while GNOME guys didn't (note that
+the whole GNOME philosophy is "conservative", e.g. in the options in
+provides in GUI). Both philosophies had its pros and cons.
+
+One big advantage of sticking as close to upstream as possible is that
+GNOME team in mdv eased their maintenance burdens, which is logical as
+they weren't that many and were always overworked (note that fcrozat,
+for example, didn't just maintain only GNOME, but many other aspects
+of the distro too, including a good number of core stuff).
+
+> Some people may argue that a distro is here to enhance software, but the
+> first goal is to distribute. And since everybody think distro should
+> collaborate more, pushing upstream is exactly this kind of
+> collaboration.
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+