Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:02:57 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On Desktops and defaults Message-ID: <XFMail.990202210257.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199902021904.MAA07243@usr05.primenet.com>
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On 02-Feb-99 Terry Lambert wrote: >> Just a note before arguments get momentum: >> >> Offcourse, whenever possible, anyone responsible for such changes into >> the BSD system, like those we discussed the last 48 hours about KDE >> and default desktops, will make sure that whatever he adds to the >> install process will made modular so that no desktop will get major >> preference above the other. >> >> Doing otherwise might IMHO violate the principle that is Unix, e.g. >> customisable to the max with nothing forced down ones throat. > > You mean like SMTP is modular? <ducks> I left that one out of purpose, for reasons well understood... My own personal voice about that is the same: modularise and let the user decide. > 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 --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven It's a Dance of Energy, asmodai(at)wxs.nl when the Mind goes Binary... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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