Re: debian-desktop, and relevant thoughts.
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:26:30AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Ghe Rivero">
>
> > I'm one of the fanatics that had been working on the Ximian Desktop port
> > to Woody (Actually the only one packaging an preparing the patches). By
> > the end of this week I hope to have finish with the last release and put
> > all the sources available (at least most of then).
> >
> > Apart of this, i like XD2, and most of the improvements that they have
> > done, but not all. It could be great if we could integrate some patches
> > into the Debian desktop. I don't mind if gnome2.2 or Gnome2.4 goes into
> > next stable. I'm actually working with the next XDunstable, based on
> > Gnome2.4, so i can help anybody to have a real good desktop for Debian..
>
> Ghe, I'm still not clear why you're doing this, particularly when you're
> doing it independently of the larger woody backport project that is already
> running. Just about all of the Ximian stuff is *already present* in Debian's
> GNOME, minus a few fairly arguable patches here and there... I really don't
> grok why you have a whole separate effort for so little benefit beyond the
> current Debian unstable GNOME (including the existing woody backport)...
BTW, i am searching for woody backported 4.2.1 or 4.3.0 powerpc XFree86
packages, maybe you have an idea were to find such, and where is this
'larger existing woody backport' located ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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