On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:19 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Murray Cumming wrote: > > As for bringing in new functionality and allowing varied focus, I still > > think this could be done with additional release sets such as > > - Productivity: > > Spreadsheets, Word processing, Slides, Databases, Publishing. > > - Creativity: > > Photos, Graphics, Drawing, Video- and Audio-editing, sharing, mixing, > > augmenting, collaborating. > > We could get inspiration from what KDE guys do. If the "gnome desktop" > expands to any kind of applications in various fields (like it seems to > be the case), we could issue metapackages like gnome-libs (gtk, > gnomevfs, etc.), gnome-base (nautilus, panel, etc.), gnome-multimedia > (photo management, editing and such), gnome-games (oh, this one already > exists!), etc. >
Mandriva (Cooker) has a small list of meta-packages. task-gnome task-gnome-devel to name a few. > Since we would have meta-packages and no real packages like KDE do, > these "parts of the environment" could even overlap, so that a photo > management application could be part of gnome-multimedia as well as > gnome-photo for instance. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list