Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Dec 2003 22:48 UTC
A few weeks ago we published an article titled "The Great Mac OS X 10.4 Wish List", detailing a few personal wishes for the next version of OSX. Later I learned that quite a few Apple engineers read the article and so it felt good that the time spent writing the article was not just a voice in the void. A reader emailed me a few days ago asking me to do the same for other OSes and DEs. So here is my personal wish-list for a future version of Gnome. Please tell us about your own Gnome wish list in the comment section provided.
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1. yes, a GOOD gnome ppp dialer is really needed.. a GOOD equivalent of kppp has been missing for what? 5 years? Gnome-ppp was getting there in Gnome 1.4, but it still hasn't been ported to gtk2. =(
2. a gtk port of plastik, hell even make it the default theme with a few tweaks. Plastik not only looks modern, but is quite usable. Plastik has a chance to become KDE's default (hopefully!) in KDE 3.3, so maybe we'll see both desktops have the same theme!
3. better integration architecturally - one thing that KDE excells at is that nearly all of it's components are highly integrated in terms of code.
4. make nautilus fully spatial or not spatial at all (keep it as it is). Don't have seperate modes for each. The classic MacOS finder was great, so I hope they stick with #1.
5. share icon themes between GNOME and KDE.. They use the same icon theme format even, but they haven't standardized the names of icons!
GNOME 2.4 is definatly kickass, but upon checking out the new kde 3.2 beta, I yearn for a desktop with KDE's features and architecture and GNOME's simplicity and feel. I think that's definatly possible with further development of GNOME, or general polishing of KDE. Overall, I think KDE 3.3 (or 4.0) and GNOME 2.8 (or 3.0) are probably going to be more alike than GNOME 2.4 and KDE 3.1 are.