Re: The project is dead?

[Luis <lemsx1@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I just wanted to point out that Splashy is being developed with
debian-desktop in mind and Etch.

You might want to include Splashy in this task/virtual-package.

ATM Splashy is not part of Etch as we are working on a bug that
prevents Splashy work correctly when started from initramfs. We are
about 10 or so developers working on this problem #splashy on
irc.freenode.net.

debian-desktop is NOT dead.

On 8/24/06, Gustavo Franco <gustavorfranco@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > > On 8/24/06, Janez Rabzelj Zappone <rabzelj.janez@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> This project and mailing list is dead?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Hi Janez,
> > >
> > > Not really. I'll be updating the web site really soon, we've a desktop
> > > artwork meeting on the plans and there are a lot of new stuff being
> > > polished to our next release (Debian GNU/Linux Etch), in terms of
> > > desktop. Do you need other information?
> > >
> >
> > Mmmm, objetives of debian-desktop project, how I can contribute.
> >
>
> Hi Janez,
>
> You can start contributing downloading a testing image[0] of our next
> release and install the "default desktop environment", providing
> feedback about the overall usability here. Keep in mind that you will
> go through the normal questions and after install the base system you
> will be asked which 'tasks' you want to install. Select "default
> desktop environment" if it isn't already suggested for you. If you're
> in a laptop, it might suggest the laptop task too.
>
> For the record:
> - The "default desktop environment" is GNOME but you can install KDE
> invoking the installer writing "install tasksel/first=kde-desktop".
> You will be able to write just "install tasks=kde-desktop" soon
>
> - We need a better default artwork, and the discussions are going on
>
> - I would like flash (gnash) and java (gcjwebplugin) support out of
> the box, but maybe it won't make Etch in December due to upstream
> issues, not our fault;
>
> - multimedia support (audio/video playback with default apps and in
> the browser, cd/dvd burn support) is being worked on to be included by
> default too (where the codec licenses won't block us)
>
> [0] = http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> regards,
> -- stratus
>
>
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