Re: Desktop normalizationy (fwd)

1998-11-27 Thread Mats Loman
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Greg S. Hayes wrote: > If the lsb committies decide to add standards like desktop enviroments > to linux we should probably create several levels of lsb compliance. One > for the basics (the minimal linux) and others extending from there. If > we don't do this we could rule o

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-25 Thread Marcin Krol
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Greg S. Hayes wrote: > If the lsb committies decide to add standards like desktop enviroments > to linux we should probably create several levels of lsb compliance. I am glad to see that generally there is agreement or kind of similar thinking on the issue. Absolutely there i

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Joel Maher
> If the lsb committies decide to add standards like desktop enviroments > to linux we should probably create several levels of lsb compliance. One > for the basics (the minimal linux) and others extending from there. If > we don't do this we could rule out some linux machines from being > conside

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Greg S. Hayes
If the lsb committies decide to add standards like desktop enviroments to linux we should probably create several levels of lsb compliance. One for the basics (the minimal linux) and others extending from there. If we don't do this we could rule out some linux machines from being considered linux (

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Rahul Dave
I got this from you: > > > > All that is needed other than that is a standard way to interface to "add > > > this to rootmenu/toolbar" that can be used to update _all_ window manager > > > data from fvwm to enlightenment as well as kde/gnome. > > > > That's what I mean. *All* of them. What users

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
There seems to be an awful lot of fuss over someone's simple suggestion of some way of standardizing the desktop. I think that everyone has taken it out of context, saying that defining a desktop standard is out of the scope of LSB, and that it would take away the customizability that we have. I sa

Re: Desktop normalizationy

1998-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
> > All that is needed other than that is a standard way to interface to "add > > this to rootmenu/toolbar" that can be used to update _all_ window manager > > data from fvwm to enlightenment as well as kde/gnome. > > That's what I mean. *All* of them. What users (I think) would love to see > is t