Oops! That's not what I meant, good sir! I just wanted to make sure that we're not forgetting other platforms. I love what you and the rest of the Ubuntu team do. We sometimes just have miscommunications because of semantics and stuff.
Perhaps, what I should have said was, "thanks for the support from the Unity side of things and we'll find ways to do the same for other environments." I apologize, Mark Regards, Allan http://live.gnome.org/AllanCaeg +63 927 982 0592 Sent mobile On Aug 19, 2010 7:19 PM, "Mark Shuttleworth" <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 19/08/10 10:48, Allan Caeg wrote: >> That could work for Unity (though I'm not very familiar with it), but >> we also have to think about other platforms. Got to think about >> something that will work upstream (GNOME). > > Ah, you touch on my sensitivities! > > From our perspective, Unity is "upstream", it's design and lead > implementation is completely independent of the Ubuntu team. It's also > as much part of GNOME as something like Zeitgeist and lots of other > projects that have started out in the wild and moved to the center over > time. We would like Gnomers to think of it as a proud contribution from > Canonical, and we're a little hurt when people suggest otherwise. So, > tread softly when you tread on folks dreams, even if inadvertently ;-) > >> Let's not forget other desktop environments too. It's Firefox on the >> Linux desktop that we're talking about so there's a lot more to it >> than its presence on Unity. > > Indeed, I would expect FF to inspect its environment and use the right > tools as available, and we'd support making that easy for the Unity case. > > Mark >
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