On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:29:36PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Hi! > > I've been talking to people on the #gnome-debian channel about > some of this issues, and also had read or started some threads > about the topics. There are 4 main things I see we should work > on while we're working on this transition: > > 1. Oskuro already pointed out that we should be using libgnutls10 > where possible for gnome2.6 debs > > 2. We have some package naming inconsistencies on libraries like > libgnome which we should be fixing following the libpkg-guide > procedure, as suggested by Junichi. > > 3. We should start thinking about using the gnome2.6 transition > to move the schema files to where they belong: /usr/share. I think it's the time to do this. > 4. debifying gnome - we need to work on making gnome look > more like a 'debian desktop' - this includes a default splash, > a default background and, maybe, a default theme. It also > includes fixing nautilus to actually add the Debian-related .desktop > files which are included in nautilus: > > [kov]@[beterraba] $ dpkg -L nautilus-data | grep -i debian > /usr/share/doc/nautilus-data/changelog.Debian.gz > /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop/debian-homepage.desktop > /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop/debian-reference.desktop > /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop/debian-security.desktop > > Now, this fourth item is something I'd like to have fixed for > gnome2.4, even. I would like to put the default stuff directly > into gnome-session, where it belongs (in splash's case) > and have desktop-base only provide alternatives. What do > people, especially the new gnome-session's maintainer > think? Agreed, unless gnome-session depends directly on desktop-base package, which can be bloate things. IMO, giving a corporate Debian feeling to desktops (GNOME and KDE) is a thing that must be done. After all, when a user gets the desktop running, he usually wants to say "hey! I'm running Debian, folks!" ;-) -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo@debian.org
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