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On Thursday 23 January 2003 06:20 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 12:32, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Yes. I hate xcdroast (mainly due to gtk file selection suckiness), k3b
> > should be ok.
> >
> > But then, k3b and xcdroast must be worked on actively (in the time it
> > would take to maintain arson etc).
>
> Except then GNOME guys like me don't want to use k3b. It's this kind of
> difference that's the reason Mandrake has so many CD burners in the
> first place, of course. I can see it can be an inconvenience to
> developers, but I also think in a way it's one of Mandrake's selling
> points; there's few other commercial distros with such a massive variety
> of packaged programs. I don't think it's a good idea to start a "thin
> end of the wedge" policy of reducing the amount of packages; in the end
> I think such a policy would lose more in lost sales than it would gain
> in reduced costs.

Well we could do the sane thing and completely strip gnome from the distro 
accept for a few well placed aps. Thats personnaly why I started useing it in 
the first pace when it was a kde distro. 

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