On 28/09/2007, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:43 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Sara Dornsife wrote: > > > I'm too ignorant to understand why the desktop needs a name.... > > > > So that you can choose which one you want in the login menus. > > The name "GNOME" works well for that purpose though, especially > > if KDE packages are put together so you simply see "GNOME" and > > "KDE" as choices. > > While I'd like to keep the GNOME moniker as a courtesy to the community > upon whose code we heavily rely (personally I've always advocated a > mention on our splash screen, just as we've always acknowledged > OpenOffice.org on the StarOffice splash screen), I do take Sara's point > as well-- we could just as well call it something generic like the > "OpenSolaris Desktop", and it would still be distinguished from "KDE", > "XFCE" or any other installed desktop in the menu and documentation. > > (The documentation itself is probably another reason to keep the GNOME > name-- since we don't have our own GNOME docs team any more, we're > presumably completely reliant on the community's docs, which I dare say > refer to "GNOME" in a number of places.)
While I agree with Sara's point as well, I think we're better off not calling it something generic and being specific. Sticking with the original name ensures that there is no appearance of favoritism, etc. (well, beyond the choice of default desktop). That and makes documentation easier since it is consistent with the choices made... Besides, the last thing we want to end up doing is something like calling Mozilla *cough* "IceWeasel" *cough* -- it just makes us look like we have a grudge to bear. Ta, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
