Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:15:20 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktops and 'sysinstall' Message-ID: <20040303050313.M79809@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <003801c3ffeb$f1b4c7e0$7a30fea9@workstation> References: <003801c3ffeb$f1b4c7e0$7a30fea9@workstation>
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, .VWV. wrote:
>
> As for the desktops, the problem is the same like on Linuxes: there is no
> kind of standard.
> I have ever trusted the GTKstep and the KDEstep - now NEWstep from David
> Johnson - as the 'standard' visual frontends.
>
There is *ONLY* one way - you establish the standard for your desktop
distro -
* pick gnome or kde [1]
* make sure it gets installed by default and that the other
is not included
* pick one good tool to do anything
* integration, integration, integration (everything should for
example use the same way to print so there is only one place to
configure it, and its nicely graphic so your grandmother can
do it)
* anything that doesn't absolutely seamlessly fit in should be
allowed in only on pain of pain.
* if you can at all, throw everything from previous step out
* make anything obviously non-core an optional package.
* don't make things that don't fit the grand scheme optional
packages - just leave them out.
This may be highly herectical, but get the Sun JDS demo CD and try it out.
Its not ideal but moving in the right direction.
[1] realistcly, following the next steps is very hard if you don't pick
one of these two
>
> .VWV.
>
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