From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 14:00:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11089 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10964 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07707; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:59:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd007614; Tue Feb 2 14:59:28 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15205; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:59:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902022159.OAA15205@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On Desktops and defaults To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 21:59:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai" at Feb 2, 99 09:02:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Seriously, the way to get momentum is to pull in the same direction, > > for better or for worse. > > Well, the way I can see it if we make one desktop the preferred, default > one, yer always bound to get arguments otherwise. So this is the best way > to solve these problem before they arrive... > > I hope the rest agrees on this, as it is still the wagon we call (Free)BSD > which we need to pull with the entire community. > > Comments are offcourse always welcome, especially after my beautysleep =P Well, the issue is that default modules aren't modular. I think that a default desktop module that you have to opt out of is the best strategy for embracing the command-line challenged. If that means that the arguments commence until such time as the default can be modularly removed... good. Something needs to drive the modularization that isn't happening now. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message