sudo timeouts + abiword/gnumeric/planner

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:26:15AM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> >We're currently shipping Planner in the DesktopSeed (no rationale, from
> >memory), but I don't think it fits the 'greatest common factor' goal of
> >the default install -> only particular users will have a need for it. I
> >propose that we shift it back up to SupportedSeed.
> >
> Except that a lot of people WON'T KNOW about Planner. Part of the joy of
> open source is that there is such a wealth of applications out there.
> Yes, some of them might be quite technically demanding to use, but there
> are people out there who will have an interest in that field and figure
> out how to use them.

Yes, but this doesn't seem to fit the 'greatest common factor' concept
(which has been used to shoot down several of my suggestions for additions
to desktop).

The Live CD might be a reasonable place to show off available applications,
but the default desktop should have what the user will actually use.

> The only reason not to include Inkscape or Sodipodi was that we could 
> not decide which would emerge with more momentum.

I thought we had agreed that inkscape was the winner here.  Feedback from
people who use these applications extensively seems to indicate that they
prefer inkscape.

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 - mdz