Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 04:56:48 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transforming GNOME Into A Linux-Only Project (link) Message-ID: <4DD4DB50.3040402@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1305746792.1538.11.camel@xenon> References: <1305746792.1538.11.camel@xenon>
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On 5/18/11 3:26 PM, Michal Varga wrote: > I'll just leave this here as I'm basically speechless, and it's probably > not worth commenting anyway. > > But for those who might be interested and don't necessarily keep up with > the latest 'news', clicky: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw GNOME has been heading down this path since 2.0 was released. It's been a slow process, but the decisions that were made around hal, devkit, etc. are unmistakable signs that GNOME is abandoning the OSS desktop in favor of a Linux desktop. Is this a bad idea? Yes and no. These days, people expect a desktop to have a tight OS integration. They like the ability to have mobility, hardware awareness, sexy graphics, etc. as part of their desktop experience. So a desktop can't be completely OS-agnostic. However, what GNOME and fd.o could have been better about is to make truly open, well-documented standards so that vendors like Solaris and *BSD could plug in bits to provide OS integration. Say what you will about hal, but hal had this. The udev stuff does not. To me, GNOME could add OS-level integration and provide clear delineation as to what is PI and what is PD. The PD stuff should have open specifications. That's the OSS model. But if the GNOME guys want to make GNOME into the Linux OS, that's their call. GNOME 2.x is still open. Perhaps the fork efforts being discussed will take off. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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