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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
From:       Luke-Jr <luke-jr () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-08-29 14:18:36
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Ok that somewhat explains what 'desktop' is... But what has the *discussion* 
been discussing? :)

On Friday 29 August 2003 02:06 pm, dams@idm.fr wrote:
> Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org> said:
> > Could someone summarize this thread please? I'm somewhat interested in
> > the discussion, but don't really have time to go through reading all 50
> > or so new messages... o.o;;
>
> summary attempt (please correct me if we still don't agree)
>
> desktop will handle the desktop component. It'll try to stick with vanilla
> desktops as much as possible, but provide good default, and uniformization
> when it's possible and non-intrusive. In all case, additions should be
> easily (un)pluggable.
>
> About non visible stuff, desktop will try to make things work out of the
> box. Ie, addapt config/default data so that they better interact with
> gentoo core system.
>
> Some questions to answer :
>
> - do we want X in desktop or in base or elsewhere? it seems we tend to put
> X in base, but not included in default system
>
> - should we have rules to decide if such modification will change the DE
> too much from vanilla state?
>
> - probably other things, but my head is in a bad state right now

- -- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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