Not proposing Emerillon as a Gnome module?
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Not proposing Emerillon as a Gnome module?
by Pierre-Luc Beaudoin-4
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Hi,
Emerillon is a map viewer. Aiming at simple user interface, Emerillon is a powerful, extensible application. It features OpenStreetMap based maps. Use it to browse maps, search the map for places, placemark places for later quick access and more! Web Site: http://www.novopia.com/emerillon/ Over the past weeks, people have asked me over and over to propose Emerillon to be included in Gnome 2.30. While I do want to see it widely distributed and recognized, it is my understanding that in the future (based on GCDS presentations), Gnome would not accept general applications as modules. Emerillon uses Gnome technologies. Emerillon follows Gnome HIG and UI concepts. It would be a perfect fit. But is that why we should include it in Gnome? The same reasoning could apply to some of the latest additions in Gnome: should we include it in Gnome simply because it is good? AFAIR, the new www.gnome.org will make place for applications to be promoted. Such visibility could replace inclusion. A sort of "blessed" application set. That would be fine for Emerillon I think. On the technical side of proposing Emerillon in Gnome: * The following dependencies are not blessed Gnome dependencies: * Ethos http://git.dronelabs.com/ethos/ * librest http://moblin.org/projects/librest * Geoclue http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue * It is already using Gnome resources (git, ftp, bugzilla, l10n) * Packages are already available for Debian, Ubuntu Karmic, Fedora Rawhide, Gentoo overlay, OpenSuse * It is 3.0 ready (Goal wise) * It is GPL 2+ with some files LGPL in case they'd be worthy of making part of a future lib. * Emerillon is quite young yet. It doesn't even have a release schedule or a stable release, but it can be made to follow Gnome's. * On the A11y side, it lags just like libchamplain does. Users will still be able to see the data in sidebars, but the map itself is "opaque". * On the l10n side, thanks to the very efficient Gnome l10n teams, Emerillon is already available in 7 languages! So what does the community think? Pierre-Luc Beaudoin _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list |
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Re: Not proposing Emerillon as a Gnome module?
by Andre Klapper
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Re: Not proposing Emerillon as a Gnome module?
by Pierre-Luc Beaudoin-4
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On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 00:08 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> To the GNOME developers: > If you have not commented yet, if there is anything to add, if you > have questions to the maintainer: Please comment now. After discussing the question on IRC, the following facts have been highlighted: * It would be way too early to include Emerillon in Gnome. I entirely agree with that, I almost didn't send the previous email, but after all, how can you be too soon to not propose something? :) The idea was to start the discussion on whether we should include or not every software just because people demand it. * Applications should grow and have a little life out of Gnome before inclusion. * Adding every applications has the effect of limiting competition. I can point an exception but still their efforts seems "useless" because "we already have such an application". Therefore, adding Emerillon would keep other people from possibly proposing better solutions. And we are not even approaching the itchy problem of removing apps. So I think the release team shouldn't even consider this email as a proposal. Thanks :) Pierre-Luc _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list |
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