[Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

Timothy D. Witham wookie at osdl.org
Tue Dec 13 09:57:54 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 04:52 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Miller, Marc">
> 
> > One of the things we discussed at the Desktop Architects is an effort to
> > "focus on our strengths!"  One of our strengths is that customizability
> > and control.
> 
> Obviously, customisability is not something that GNOME regards as a primary
> strength. It's a by-product of design, where it makes sense. Control, on the
> other hand, is something we have been pursuing vigorously with technologies
> such as GConf (for centralised configuration including default and mandatory
> setings) and Sabayon/Pessulus (for profile creation).
> 
> - Jeff
   
    The issue seems to be what is the set of "where it makes sense". :-)

Tim

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