[Mageia-dev] GNOME plans

Mon Jun 4 21:07:33 CEST 2012

2012/6/4 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 08:17:39PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> 2012/6/4 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+>> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 05:51:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>
+>> Leaving out the crap about "change your wording" and whatever.
+> [..]
+>> BTW: Pls, calm down a bit, I am quite amazed how emotional you react
+>> to this. It's software, not human rights.
+>
+> I indeed get annoyed if words such as "crap" are used in discussions.
+
+Yes, me too when someone starts with compalining about my wording.
+
+> Now you've seem to think I'm suggesting that every desktop implements
+> their on tool. But that is not what I've suggested.
+
+No, you suggest to implement everything into one desktop's tool.
+
+> Two things:
+> - One thing that is shared across distributions
+> - Another thing implemented in System Settings
+>
+> These are two separate things. This does NOT require a XFCE "system
+> settings" tool, as it would be covered by the other tool. If you have
+> *one* tool that is shared across distributions, then there must be
+> standards to deal with the differences. Standards that can be used by
+> the (GNOME) System Settings, more or less duplicating what the other
+> tool does. Another possibility that more things are agreed upon between
+> distributions, which can then be implemented in System Settings, but is
+> still handled by various distro specific tools (MCC, etc) as well.
+
+Yes, perfect. That's the situation we almost have:
+ - Desktops have the tools for their own settings (window behavior,
+themes, behavior of their own applications, etc.). These are the same
+no matter which distribution you are using (if the distribution do not
+change too much when inplementing the desktop).
+
+Now all we need is a selection of tools such as MCC or YaST or
+whatever you may call it for all distributions to do the system
+settings (hardware, security features, whatever there is in MCC or
+YaST). Of course there may be difficulties because of different
+package managements but the graphical tools for software management
+should not be too hard to "unite".
+
+Then we are at the point you are heading at, no? As much uniformity as
+possible.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+