On 7/31/08, Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay, > >> Not me! I witnessed all the work that went into OM 2007.2 over the >> last couple of years - including the days of OE - and when it was all >> chucked out for 'the new stuff' it was, frankly, a bit miserable. > > The only thing that was 'chucked out' was the matchbox window manager. > It was a great piece of technology and we still like it, but we > decided to replace it with raster's Enlightenment and raster did a > fantastic job. > I think even though the switch was painful at the beginning, we now > can be proud of E and have very interesting options going forward. > > Everything else is still there, including GTK+ if that's what you are > looking for. > The GTK+ telephony applications are not used by default anymore, but > we are working on making them easily installable through the Installer. > I hope eventually you will like OM 2008.8 as much as you like OM 2007.2 > > But forks are welcome, if people out there show us how to do things > better, I'm pretty sure I speak for many of us that we will not suffer > from NIH syndrome and instead just try to integrate great stuff into > our builds. > OpenEmbedded makes it very easy for people to do things differently > from us, and we invest quite a bit of time and money into it. > Best Regards, > Wolfgang > > On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote: > >>> I would be curious to know what kind of developer numbers (non-OM >>> employees) would provide support to a fork of OM2007.2 into a purely >>> community driven project? >> >> I'll tag along if there is a fork. >> >>> Does everyone think 2007 is a dead path and that the ASU/FSO course >>> is the only one to follow? >> >> Not me! I witnessed all the work that went into OM 2007.2 over the >> last couple of years - including the days of OE - and when it was all >> chucked out for 'the new stuff' it was, frankly, a bit miserable. >> >> >> >> ; >> -- >> Jay Vaughan >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support mailing list >> support@lists.openmoko.org >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > support@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >
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