On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mitch Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wmb@laptop.org">wmb@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Within OLPC, there are proponents/enthusiasts for other distros and<br>
window managers (your humble correspondent being one). So it's not like<br>
it was a Fedora/Gnome juggernaut. But the people within OLPC who are<br>
doing the actual work - and whose butts are on the line for delivering<br>
the result on schedule - decided that the F11/Gnome approach had the<br>
highest probability of getting us from where we are now</blockquote><div><br>+1. This also means that people advocating XFCE and KDE have the door wide open to switch from advocating to building a highly polished spin for 1.5 integrating their desktop of choice.<br>
<br>Right now, the shortage of hands to do things is a major factor. If Fedora generally works on 1.5, Gnome will Just Work with no (or minimal) additional effort or QA from us.<br><br>Work on getting a top-notch polished $desktop on it, and continued mantainership behind it, and it'll definitely be an option. It's reasonably easy to get desktops "going", but good polish making it suitable for end users takes a ton of detailed, subtle work.<br>
<br>cheers,<br><br></div></div><br>m<br>-- <br> <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect<br> - ask interesting questions<br>
- don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first<br> - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a><br>