Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt at canonical.com):
> The concession for Java and Wine is because, unlike Linux application
> developers, Java and Windows application developers can't reasonably be
> expected to know or care about Ubuntu at all.

I'm sorry, I just don't understand this theme in this thread.  The one
about Linux application developers should be gearing their apps toward
Ubuntu I don't think it's reasonable - at least not with some of the
items on the original list.  It's one thing for Gnome to do so, because
their mission is different.  For a distro, I think it's self-defeating.

If I were out there coding some app, and someone came to me and said
"your application isn't going to be in opensuse unless you drop support
for appindicators and use (some other thing) instead", I'd laugh at
them.  This is open source.  I code it for myself first, and share it
with you.  If you provide a generic API which will let my app do both, I
may or may not decide to use it (probably not - time is scarce).  But
to just say I need to use your own API would be unfathomably presumptuous.

Mind you I don't care to argue here.  I'm just saying I'm worried about
the fact that everyone seems behind this, and that this attitude will be
detrimental to Ubuntu's standing in the community.  Really detrimental.

-serge