From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 7 11: 1: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE9B37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A38543F75 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:00:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h17J0rrY027675 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:00:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([67.98.154.9]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9YCTG00.1F0; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:00:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:00:48 -0500 Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=fixed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , To: Narvi From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <20030207193738.J43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Message-Id: <78721AF2-3ACE-11D7-8AC2-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Rfc2646-Fix: 1 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Narvi wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Larry Sica wrote: > > > Exactly - and different groups are best served by different > >> >>> * and then you just deal with the needed decisions that come from >>> the first two parts to end up with a desktop package >>> >> >> This is not so simple. There are more factors than just what someone >> likes to use. What I like or you like may be horrible for the target >> audience. You have to worry about maintainability among other >> things. Compatability, future compatability, etc etc... >> > > This is why you need to deal with the decisions - and make the ones > that > may seem the wrong ones for you *personaly*, but are a better fit for > the > target audience. > >> >>> But really its a huge amount of work and includes many quite quirky >>> decisions even when starting for a well-known base like GNOME/KDE >>> (alphabetical ordering). >>> >> >> Yes, also when using a third party base you lose some control. Since >> now you have to compensate for their packages and quirks and bugs and >> localizations. >> > > Its unlikely you will have the resources to start something like > gnomeor > kde from scratch, and imho an utter waste of time. Instead you should > start with the base and add your own customisation layer that fixes up > some of the things and changes others. > You misundestood me here, I was not saying not to use one or the other, merely that there will always be some part that is not under one's control fully. - --Larry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 (Build 349) Beta iQA/AwUBPkQCY+eV8VtPCL3dEQJTswCg2bdJgwIou/4eesAjDVEUT0llRsYAn36a xGXtyVCZN6tkJdvB9gr4dl+h =Afib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message