Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 09:07:26 BST 2011


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, July 25, 2011 10:30:46 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>> This whole debate is way too heated and I'd like to take this out ofthe
>> arena. Are there 2 or 3 people on the GNOME side that areavailable to talk
>> this through and find a solution? Ideally whoevermaintains system settings
>> on the GNOME side would be one of them.I'd like to work with them and Ben on
>> finding a good solution.
>
> Has anyone stepped up for this yet?
>
> It's something that deserves resolution and Lydia is willing to help
> facilitate, now we just need the relevant people involved to participate. I
> don't foresee it being a long process, but one that ought to be taken on and
> gotten out of the way. Hopefully those involved in the relevant GNOME and the
> KDE projects can appreciate this on behalf of our users and, with Lydia's help
> in keeping things constructive and out of the bikeshed, we can quickly put
> this behind us and move on to bigger and better things. :)
>
> Cheers ...
>
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Perhaps the involved people from KDE and Gnome should just sit down in
an IRC chat room and talk about it.

note: congrats on the KDE 4.7 release!



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