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Day: GNOME OSDay: GNOME OSPosted Aug 10, 2012 1:17 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: Day: GNOME OS by slashdot Parent article: Day: GNOME OS
slashdot surely overstates the case. Nevertheless, I think it's interesting that Debian is going to make the default desktop XFCE in the next release. They claim it's to save space on a minimal desktop CD image, but that's still got to be of some concern to the GNOME crowd.
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Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 14:33 UTC (Fri) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]
we actually had Jordi Mallach as a representative for Debian at the Advisory Board meeting at GUADEC, and we had good discussions and collaboration on how to improve the Debian packaging of GNOME. plus, the GNOME OS/Testable effort will make it easier for Debian (and other distributions) to do QA on GNOME, and to package it more quickly.
the XFCE thing has been considerably overblown in places like Slashdot and Phoronix.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 15:20 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] the XFCE thing has been considerably overblown... OK, if you say so. I guess confidence is good.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 16:27 UTC (Fri) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]
the change is in unstable, and it's not been automatically propagated to Wheezy.
after the change Joss made, a lot of the GNOME packages have been resumbitted with a different compression, which makes it easier to switch back to GNOME as the default UI.
but even if that weren't the case: the important thing to take away is that the GNOME project is engaged in productive discussions with all downstream packagers, and it's actively trying to improve the QA and development for both distributons and software developers - something that has been a sore point of the project for many years.
obviously, we get kicks in the head both if we don't do things, or if we do, so it's par for the course, I guess.
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