On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Friday, June 8, 2012 22:54:03 Alex Fiestas wrote: > we have kde-baseapps, and i agree what you've said previously that wewould > benefit from having a defined set of "core applications"
Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking with the idea of an Operating System in mind rather than with the Workspace because; what is a workspace anyway? Alone what does it solve? Makes any sense create a Workspace? The only answer I could think of was that the Workspace only solve a particular problem natural to platforms such gnu/linux, open/freebsd where historically by default you had a workspace designed for the terminal so if you wanted something else you needed an addon that sits on top of everything else. Considering what I said above, we shouldn't think of what we do as a Workspace but instead as a complete OS, since it is merely a coincidence of how things are done in Unix that we are able to have multiple workspace or multiple pretty much anything (Debian offers freebsd kernel...). I'm only talking from a designing PoV not technical, I don't want to stop abstracting things (just to make this point clear). Why I say all this? because an OS without an application to access to your data makes 0 sense (dolphin) An operating system without applications to do the basic things our target users will want to do with its data makes no sense (gwenview, music player, video player, browser). An operating system without hardware capabilities makes no sense (kmix, power devil...) This is something we have struggled with historically, kmix is not in kde-workspace because at some point somebody considered that a Workspace "can live" without a sound mixer. That someone was and is right. Well, just some rambling, I'm still WIP on all this hope you help me to figure things out in 2 days, can't wait ! _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
