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[Allan Caeg <allancaeg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops! That's not what I meant, good sir! I just wanted to make sure that
we're not forgetting other platforms. I love what you and the rest of the
Ubuntu team do. We sometimes just have miscommunications because of
semantics and stuff.

Perhaps, what I should have said was, "thanks for the support from the Unity
side of things and we'll find ways to do the same for other environments."

I apologize, Mark

Regards,
Allan
http://live.gnome.org/AllanCaeg
+63 927 982 0592

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On Aug 19, 2010 7:19 PM, "Mark Shuttleworth" <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/08/10 10:48, Allan Caeg wrote:
>> That could work for Unity (though I'm not very familiar with it), but
>> we also have to think about other platforms. Got to think about
>> something that will work upstream (GNOME).
>
> Ah, you touch on my sensitivities!
>
> From our perspective, Unity is "upstream", it's design and lead
> implementation is completely independent of the Ubuntu team. It's also
> as much part of GNOME as something like Zeitgeist and lots of other
> projects that have started out in the wild and moved to the center over
> time. We would like Gnomers to think of it as a proud contribution from
> Canonical, and we're a little hurt when people suggest otherwise. So,
> tread softly when you tread on folks dreams, even if inadvertently ;-)
>
>> Let's not forget other desktop environments too. It's Firefox on the
>> Linux desktop that we're talking about so there's a lot more to it
>> than its presence on Unity.
>
> Indeed, I would expect FF to inspect its environment and use the right
> tools as available, and we'd support making that easy for the Unity case.
>
> Mark
>