On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 21:34 +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
Aloha oh wondrous GNOME Community, Some may have noticed my blog posts trying to engage the wider openSUSE Community in discussion on ways of improving how we, the openSUSE Community, work and play. The shotgun approach of hitting the whole Community seems to be going a bit slow, so I thought I would try a different approach :-) So basically I'm looking to see what you the GNOME Community feel is missing, an issue, could be improved etc. Also crucially how do you think any of the issues can be resolved.
At least for me, as a mere user [and developer using], GNOME on openSUSE 11.2 - things are great. I really don't have any significant complaints. As a developer somethings it seems like the GNOME space is crawling [especially with regard specifically to Gtk, and more specifically Gtk#], but things work well. It also seems like, device management for example, there is a solution-of-the-month club: HAL vs. device kit, gpod vs. podsleuth, etc... but some of that may just be inevitable. Then there is GNOME 3 shell, which obsoletes toolbar applets and things like GNOME-Do, and I'm not sure where that is going. But, on the other hand, things like Zietgeist (sp?) look amazing - I've wanted something like that since Nat pitched Dashboard [which became Beagle]... and has since been essentially abandoned. So as a user of, and a developer using, it would be VERY nice if there were some clarification of the-way-forward. I know I've pretty much given up reading BLOGs and the like.
As I mentioned in my blog posts, I am looking for a discussion and not a flame war. I am not in any power to resolve any issue that are present, but I do feel that we already have the tools at hand to fix most that we encounter. I will however put my noisy voice to as much use as possible and try and help out where I can. I do feel that sometimes we just shrug our shoulders and carry on regardless, and think "why bother we aren't going to get any help". If we don't make a sound case for why & how we need help there is no chance we will. So this is the first step in getting that help - defining what and how. Please help me and yourselves work out how best to improve life within openSUSE. If people would rather not make their concerns etc public, please feel free to contact me directly. What I do ask is that we please try and keep things on topic, calm and pleasant. -- openSUSE w/GNOME <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> Linux for human beings who need to get work done.
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