[Foresight-devel] Re: Call for information: April Newsletter

[Paul Cutler]

This is all really good feedback, thank you.  Shame on me for not
sending this out two weeks ago now that I'm under the gun to get this
out this weekend.

My original intent with the PoTM was to highlight something included
in the base install that users probably haven't used before, or used a
lot, or didn't know all the features of.  Which is one reason I picked
Glipper - I'm not aware of another distribution shipping that (or
desktop drapes, which I was thinking of for next month, everyone likes
eye candy).

I'm totally open to changing this - but I also need volunteers for
next month to help write it, and I am more than happy to play the role
of editor, so you don't need to worry about flow, grammar, etc.

Brasero may be in interesting pick for this month, as I've already
written a page in the User Guide on it.

Let's narrow it down in the next 24 hours, all comments welcome.

Thanks!

On 4/24/07, Kevin Harriss <special.kevin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:46 +0100, Paul Scott-Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:56:32PM +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> > | On 4/24/07, Paul Cutler <pcutler at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> > |
> > | > And if anyone is up for working under a tight deadline, we need to a
> > | > package to highlight for the month. If we don't get any volunteers,
> > | > I was thinking Glipper - everyone likes copy / paste functionality,
> > | > which forever reason GNOME doesn't do well, and Glipper does.
> > |
> > | If I should vote I would say NetworkManager, because it had eased
> > | wireless nerworking a lot. I do not use glipper very much (every 2
> > | weeks or so)
> > |
> > | Another candidate could be TomBoy which gets more interesting.
> > Personally I think the Package of the Month should be something new and
> > interesting that people may not have heard of or tried yet. This rules
> > out Glipper, NetworkManager and Tomboy. Tomboy is well known now, and
> > NetworkManager is still too temperamental to be PotM. I can't use Glipper, it
> > likes to crash synergy when I try and copy and I've gotten used to the weird
> > copy mechanics of X. I also think Parcelle has more going for it than Glipper.
> > It has as a proper dialog, search and editing of paste history. The negative
> > being its so new it hasn't even had a release yet (a svn checkout is already in
> > contrib though).
> >
>
> I agree the the PoTM should be a lesser know program as to help bring
> attention to the project.  Some possible programs could be Brasero,
> Last-Exit, Mugshot Client, Scribes Text Editor or BillReminder.  Those
> are just some suggestions and I believe they should all be in a
> foresight repo.
>
> - Kevin Harriss
>
>
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