Bacon: Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME contributions

Posted Jul 30, 2010 19:07 UTC (Fri) by cmsj (guest, #55014)
In reply to: Bacon: Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME contributions by jspaleta
Parent article: Bacon: Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME contributions

Mentioning Litl as having lots of engineering time for GNOME is singularly ironic since their OS platform is supplied by... Canonical ;)

Bacon: Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME contributions

Posted Jul 30, 2010 19:35 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

I am aware of that. I'm more than willing to give Canonical the benefit of the doubt. If we want to talk about the role of the platform provider we can...if someone is willing to publicly talk about what Canonical is actually providing in terms of engineering support as a platform provider..and what the expectation is as customer of those services when it comes to upstreamable contributions.

Or more to the point. The in-house UI work Canonical is doing. Is Litl using that? Or is Litl differentiating its UI on top of Gnome without leveraging any of the Ubuntu specific technologies...like osd-notify...like libappindicator. Looking at the UI Litl is offering, I don't see them leveraging any of the downstream work Canonical is doing. But I could be wrong. If you have information about the Litl software stack that I don't have... feel free to inform me.

-jef