sudo timeouts + abiword/gnumeric/planner

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> > 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.

Agree - ideally, there shouldn't be anything in the default install that a
given class of user (home, SMB, enterprise) would want to remove. We have a
pretty rocking design for a user-oriented application install/remove app on
the way, which will make finding and adding new software very easy - hoping
for Hoary.

> > 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.

Definitely Inkscape.

- Jeff

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