[Mageia-dev] GNOME plans

Mon Jun 4 17:51:11 CEST 2012

2012/6/4 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:13:53PM +0800, Kira wrote:
+>> Well, I think the main point of arguing about this issue is that most
+>> people is mostly used to other input method and they don't care about
+>> iBus...
+>>
+>> Still 2 points to be answered especially for Mageia here:
+>>
+>> 1. In MCC, we can set up the input method in localedrake, and this
+>> setting would be system-wide except GNOME about 3.6+. This should be
+>> mentioned, because it would destroy the unified user experience.
+>
+> As said, I don't code. And unified experience I care for GNOME, that it
+> works consistently. I care about freedesktop.org standards. I don't care
+> for differences between distributions. E.g. MCC is great, but I prefer
+> if it didn't exist. MCC is only Mageia/Mandriva, another distro has
+> other things, etc.
+> I prefer something in gnome-control-center.
+
+And here we have the main point, the difference between Gnome and
+everybody else.
+
+Gnome is a mere desktop environment, nothing more and nothing less. Period.
+And it is not the only desktop environment nor the only way a user can
+use the desktop. So the gnome-control-center must restrict itself to
+settings which concern Gnome,  nothing else. Same as the KDE
+control-center should do.
+
+Very simple and easy to understand reason: Not everbody uses Gnome or
+KDE. If system settings will be done by Gnome and KDE control-centers,
+we'd still need yet another "setting-center" for  people who do not
+use Gnome nor KDE. Simple logic that such a diversity makes no sense
+at all.
+
+It would only make sense if Gnome was a Linux system of its own. Which
+it is clearly not.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+