the next step on the desktop

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 31 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, January 31, 2011, Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > Well, then I guess that the only thing we can do is wait until desktop
> > summit and try to push the GNOME developers to collaborate again...
> 
> +10 to that.
> 
> > Is understandable that in their current situation they can't be commited
> > to any new standard since they don't know their needs, so wait until
> > GNOME3 is out sounds reasonable.
> 
> well, one could also make the case that now is the easiest time for them to
> use existing standards since it's always harder to drop support for
> something you have.
> 
> but at the very least they could not reinvent wheels that already exist and
> create new incompatibilities as they proceed.
> 
> ah well .. :)

at this point we can do that.
trying to get them again at the desktop summit, making clear thatwe want to 
proceed, they aren't the only other players, we could proceed without them if 
necessary, would like to avoid, but we mean it with anything that it would 
take (tm)

Cheers,
Marco Martin