Mon 23 May 2005
My Lightning Talk on Gnome Session should make Joe happy. At Red Hat we had been working with Gnome Session to see how we could improve it and work around the limitations we had been seeing (such as hardcoding service startup). The code fell by the wayside as we were working on higher priority things for FC4. FC4 is frozen today so we have time to throw together a demo in the next three days. I think it is all pretty impressive and the implications are wider reaching than just gnome and the session since the same ideas can be brought to other levels.
I’ll leave it at that to get peoples appities wet. Come to GUADEC! hear the talks! Gaze in amazment of the two headed hound born with only one head or the legendary Esquilax, a horse with the head of a rabbit, and the body of a rabbit!
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May 23rd, 2005 at 1:26 pm
Bit of a metaphor problem, there - one ‘whets’ an appetite, as in sharpening it. One doesn’t ‘wet’ it, as in getting it damp.
May 23rd, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Actually it is wets the appetite, as in people start to salivate. Might be a cultural thing.
May 23rd, 2005 at 6:27 pm
Actually, Adam’s right.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=3567&dict=CALD
/ Party Pooper #1
May 23rd, 2005 at 8:42 pm
I think it is a (possibly American) cultural thing as I have seen it both ways (in fact google trys to correct you if you type in whet). Wet may have just been a play on words.