[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager

Mon Feb 20 22:25:53 CET 2012

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:49:49PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2012/2/20 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> > I have the GNOME view on the world: why have distribution specific tools
+> > if you can configure it from GNOME itself. That said, GNOME usually
+> > focusses on the very basic options.
+> 
+> Oh yes, We are GNOME, is there really a world besides?
+> Most systems with this view of the world went down the drain :)
+
+You mean like Microsoft Windows? :P
+
+> Besides this more philosophical/historical view there is a technical
+> background for my opinion, see my first point.
+
+Yes, and I (as usual) disagree. You see GNOME as a desktop environment,
+where it should not touch anything that might be part of the
+distribution. I see a distribution as something which may or may not
+provide a good GNOME experience. Whatever distribution I use (only use
+Mageia on my pc; on my laptop I switch every so often), I don't care how
+that distribution thinks I should keep my distro up to date. For that
+there is packagekit, etc. All these differences between distributions to
+do just basic things.. if you want to dive into details.. yeah, I love
+e.g "urpmi", but stuff like ensuring the system is up to date, for that
+I enjoy packagekit, networkmanager, etc.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+