Re: Gnome Desktop Only

as long as they provide the ability to have and use an app (or suite of apps 
as the case may be) and do not dimish the functionaility of those said apps 
in RedHat's distro, then all is well. As soon as Linux people see that RH 
doesnt want them to run certain (and common) programs, they'll bolt. and RH 
will suffer. 

On Thursday 26 September 2002 21:25, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 17:01, Jason Gilbert wrote:
> > Choice is good.  I just don't understand why everytime people start the
> > 'but linux is about choice' argument, they seem to feel that one company
> > must provide all the options?
>
> Redhat isnt providing ALL the options...are they providing CDE? hell
> even fvwm2 is gone...sniff...no enlightenment either which is aimed at
> being its own desktop shell and not just a window manager...Redhat is
> providing a limited subset of "popular" options in pretty much every
> category you care to list...
> desktop environment
> window manager
> mail client
> web browser
>
>
> Redhat is not providing all the options out there for anything....Redhat
> is offering a few options for pretty much everything that really matters
> to endusers...even at the desktop environment level.  What Redhat is NOT
> doing is overloading the menus nor splitting the menus up by desktop
> environment anymore which has been common practice because the stock
> desktop environments have an agenda that does not recognize that other
> toolkits and applications exist.  It seems to be Redhat is coming at
> things from a different point of view.  That being, trying to give the
> application menus a default "best of breed" set of applications
> independent of toolkit and desktop environment..instead of overloading
> the menus with ALL the choices available inside Redhat or splitting them
> up by desktop.  You can argue that the default apps they have selected
> for the menus are boneheaded...but its such a subjective thing a lot of
> people will disagree with every default choice Redhat tries to
> make.
>
> -jef