Desktop Project

The desktop project includes:

• The X Window System and other shared platform/infrastructure
• The "desktop shell" (GNOME, KDE, or "twm classic" for example)
• The applications, most importantly email/calendaring, office suite, and web browser

To get involved in desktop development, reading the sections of the Developer's Guide that discuss user interface would be a great start.

In general, we do most work in the context of upstream projects. Discussion of technical issues should almost always happen in the forums for those projects, rather than in Red Hat forums. Translations, documentation, and so on should all be done within the upstream projects when possible.

However, we do have a layer of Red Hat specific integration work, including a theme, splash screens, and the selection of default applications. These things are all open for discussion and hacking.

We have some notes on choosing default applications.

Developers involved at least part-time in the desktop include:

• Jonathan Blandford
• Chris Blizzard
• John Dennis
• Mike Harris
• Jeremy Katz
• Alex Larsson
• Than Ngo
• Havoc Pennington
• Owen Taylor
• Dan Williams

The desktop project is led by Havoc Pennington - , but please post general discussion points to the mailing list rather than sending private mail.